THE World Health Organisation (WHO) has asked six African countries to be alert for possible Ebola infections, as Guinea on Tuesday reported new cases and the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) said its new infections were a resurgence of a previous outbreak.
Guinea declared an outbreak of the virus on Sunday in the first return of the disease there since the 2013-2016 outbreak, while the DRC has confirmed four new cases in February.
Health authorities have rushed to respond to the cases in Guinea, anxious to prevent a repeat of the last outbreak in West Africa, which killed more than 11,300 people, mostly in Guinea, Sierra Leone and Liberia in the worst Ebola epidemic on record.
“We have already alerted the six countries around, including of course Sierra Leone and Liberia, and they are moving very fast to prepare and be ready and to look for any potential infection,” the
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