Some three persons in Guinea have been infected with the Ebola virus. This is as revealed by a senior health official, the development further dampens hopes of an imminent end to the world’s worst recorded outbreak of the disease.
Fode Sylla, spokesman for the national centre for the fight against Ebola, said this in Conakry.
“The three were infected in Forecariah in Western Guinea from the family of a woman who died of Ebola and whose body was handled without appropriate protection.
“In all, nine sick people are being treated at our centres throughout the country and most of them are connected to the dead woman,” Sylla said.
He further stated that the authorities had known of the three fresh cases since Saturday.