Guinean government confirms disease that killed 34 as Ebola
- 10 years ago
A fatal disease that doctors had been struggling for days to identify has been confirmed by government as the haemorrhagic fever --- better known as Ebola.
It's claimed at least 34 lives.
On Wendesday, the head of epidemics prevention of the Guinea Health Ministry was still trying to figure out what the disease was.
(SOUNDBITE) (French) HEAD OF EPIDEMICS PREVENTION FOR GUINEA HEALTH MINISTRY, SAKOBA KEITA, SAYING:
"The investigation team is going from village to village to figure out what was the source of this. That's why, for the moment, we cannot rule out Lassa fever, Ebola or Leptospirosis, or the other sicknesses that are hemorrhagic fevers."
The government received confirmation that the disease was Ebola from a laboratory in France.
Residents say they're afraid.
(SOUNDBITE) (French) TAILOR, ROBERT LAMAH, SAYING:
"I'm scared because it affects me."
Ebola has a fatality rate of up to 90 percent. It has never before been recorded
It's claimed at least 34 lives.
On Wendesday, the head of epidemics prevention of the Guinea Health Ministry was still trying to figure out what the disease was.
(SOUNDBITE) (French) HEAD OF EPIDEMICS PREVENTION FOR GUINEA HEALTH MINISTRY, SAKOBA KEITA, SAYING:
"The investigation team is going from village to village to figure out what was the source of this. That's why, for the moment, we cannot rule out Lassa fever, Ebola or Leptospirosis, or the other sicknesses that are hemorrhagic fevers."
The government received confirmation that the disease was Ebola from a laboratory in France.
Residents say they're afraid.
(SOUNDBITE) (French) TAILOR, ROBERT LAMAH, SAYING:
"I'm scared because it affects me."
Ebola has a fatality rate of up to 90 percent. It has never before been recorded