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New Ebola Deaths Confirmed In West Africa

New Ebola Deaths Confirmed In West Africa

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At least five people have died in Sierra Leone’s first confirmed  outbreak of ebola virus, the World Health Organization (WHO) said Monday, indicating an expansion of the disease that regional officials said they thought was under control after an outbreak in March, according to a WorldBreakingNews video.

Other reports put the death toll at two in the new outbreak, HuffingtonPost reports.

A hemorrhagic fever with a 90-percent fatality rate, ebola is thought to have killed 185 people in neighboring Guinea and Liberia since March when it first appeared in West Africa.

Several suspected cases were recorded in Sierra Leone early in the West African
outbreak, but they later tested negative for the disease.

In a statement posted on its website, the WHO said the outbreak in Sierra Leone was along
the country’s border with Guinea’s Guéckédou prefecture, where some of the earliest cases of the disease were recorded.

“Preliminary information received from the field indicates that one laboratory-confirmed case and five community deaths have been reported from Koindu chiefdom,” it said.

No new cases of Ebola have been detected since April 26 in Conakry, an international travel hub where an outbreak could pose the largest threat of an epidemic.

However Guinean health officials confirmed two new cases Friday in an area previously
untouched by the virus.