Daily Mail – by MIA DE GRAAFAt least 59 people have died in Guinea following the outbreak of deadly flesh-eating virus Ebola.
The first cases of the haemorrhagic fever were spotted late last month.
With no known cure or vaccine, health ministers have warned people to stay inside while they try to stop it spreading.
Symptoms include internal and external bleeding, vomiting and diarrhoea.
It is spread by personal contact and kills 25-90 per cent of those infected.
‘In Guinea, a country with a weak medical infrastructure, an outbreak like this can be devastating,’ the Unicef representative in Guinea, Dr. Mohamed Ag Ayoya, said in a statement.
Unicef has prepositioned supplies and stepped up communication on the ground to sensitise medical staff and local populations on how to avoid contracting the illness, Agoya added.
Analysts suggest this is the first instance of Ebola in Guinea, as it is more commonly found in Uganda and Democratic Republic of Congo.
Officials have urged people to stay calm, wash their hands and report all cases to authorities.
Based on evidence from cases in Uganda (pictured), health ministers have warned people to avoid contact
They have also warned people against eating wild meat, and offered free health care to anybody that detects symptoms.
The international medical charity Medecins Sans Frontieres announced yesterday it was reinforcing its medical and logistics teams in Guinea in response to the epidemic.
It is also flying in 33 tons of medicines and equipment and setting up isolation units in the three affected areas in the country.
‘Isolation units are essential to prevent the spread of the disease, which is highly contagious,’ Dr. Esther Sterk, MSF tropical medicine advisor, said.
‘Specialised staff are providing care to patients showing signs of infection.’
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They are describing it as flesh eating as that sounds really scary.
The CIA hard at work!
Yea FU*K UNICEF !!! we already had the flesh eating deasease MRSA that is mor wide spread – yea I also had that too just ask Millard !!!! Yea, Millard and his son saved my life from MRSA believeit or not and that is a fact
Yea Ebola is bad but there are a lot of things that are bad and I am living proof more that a few times so F that ebola virus!!
Take care of it and it will take care of you if you are honest about it
“It is spread by personal contact…..”
this is when it pays to be a hermit
I could not say it better JR. Choose the associates wisely – I know I do and I do nt get sick but like I said @3:05 , when I do I get very very sick. Just saying ya know