Two new Ebola cases in Guinea - WHO

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Medical staff attending to Ebola Virus victim

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Reuters – Two people have fallen ill with Ebola in Guinea after two weeks with no new confirmed cases of the disease in West Africa, the World Health Organization said on Friday.

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WHO spokeswoman Margaret Harris told a United Nations briefing in Geneva that one case was in Forecariah and appeared to be linked to a previously known chain of infection, the other was in the capital Conakry.

Ebola transmission is considered to be over once a locality has gone 42 days without a new case of the disease.

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