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| A billboard with a message about Ebola is seen on a street in Conakry, Guinea in this October 26, 2014. Reuters/Michelle Nichols |
Guinea's Ebola
coordination unit has traced an estimated 816 people who may have come into
contact with victims of the disease or their corpses during a recent flare-up
in a village in the country's southeast, a health official said on Monday.
Reuters
report continues:
Guinea
said on Thursday that it had discovered new cases of Ebola just hours after the
World Health Organization (WHO) declared neighbouring Sierra Leone's latest
outbreak over. Four people have died in the flare-up in Porokpara.
"Since
the start of the tracing on Saturday, we have traced 816 contacts in 107
families," Fode Tass Sylla, spokesman for the coordination unit, said on
state television. "We are optimistic because everyone is motivated and
cooperating."
The
villagers will be quarantined in their homes for 21 days, after which time, if
they have not developed symptoms, they will be released, Sylla said.
The
world's worst Ebola outbreak on record is believed to have started in Guinea
and killed about 2,500 people there by December last year when the WHO
announced an end to active transmission in the country.
More than 28,600 people
have been infected and 11,300 have died, nearly all of them in Guinea, Liberia
and Sierra Leone, since the epidemic began in December 2013.
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