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Guinea medics track suspected Ebola cluster after one case confirmed

Guinea medics track suspected Ebola cluster after one case confirmed

SALIOU SAMB MEDICS in Guinea were yesterday racing to track down suspected carriers of the Ebola virus, after they fled a southeastern town where the country's first case in nearly a month was detected the previous day. The case followed a "cluster of suspicious deaths" in Soulouta, the West African country's World Health Organization (WHO) representative, Georges Alfred Ki-Zerbo, said. "This illustrates the need for enhanced monitoring in the (local) ...region, but also in other regions ...to contain this new cluster as soon as possible," he told Reuters. After the case was diagnosed, some residents initially barricaded roads into the…
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