Ebola Warning: You are not logged in. Your IP address will be publicly visible if you make any edits. If you log in or create an account, your edits will be attributed to your username, along with other benefits.Anti-spam check. Do not fill this in! PreviewAdvancedSpecial charactersHelpHeadingLevel 2Level 3Level 4Level 5FormatInsertLatinLatin extendedIPASymbolsGreekGreek extendedCyrillicArabicArabic extendedHebrewBanglaTamilTeluguSinhalaDevanagariGujaratiThaiLaoKhmerCanadian AboriginalRunesÁáÀàÂâÄäÃãǍǎĀāĂ㥹ÅåĆćĈĉÇçČčĊċĐđĎďÉéÈèÊêËëĚěĒēĔĕĖėĘęĜĝĢģĞğĠġĤĥĦħÍíÌìÎîÏïĨĩǏǐĪīĬĭİıĮįĴĵĶķĹĺĻļĽľŁłŃńÑñŅņŇňÓóÒòÔôÖöÕõǑǒŌōŎŏǪǫŐőŔŕŖŗŘřŚśŜŝŞşŠšȘșȚțŤťÚúÙùÛûÜüŨũŮůǓǔŪūǖǘǚǜŬŭŲųŰűŴŵÝýŶŷŸÿȲȳŹźŽžŻżÆæǢǣØøŒœßÐðÞþƏəFormattingLinksHeadingsListsFilesDiscussionReferencesDescriptionWhat you typeWhat you getItalic''Italic text''Italic textBold'''Bold text'''Bold textBold & italic'''''Bold & italic text'''''Bold & italic textDescriptionWhat you typeWhat you getReferencePage text.<ref>[https://www.example.org/ Link text], additional text.</ref>Page text.[1]Named referencePage text.<ref name="test">[https://www.example.org/ Link text]</ref>Page text.[2]Additional use of the same referencePage text.<ref name="test" />Page text.[2]Display references<references />↑ Link text, additional text.↑ Link text==== Guinea ==== In February 2021, Sakoba Keita, head of Guinea's national health agency confirmed that three people had died of Ebola in the south-eastern region near the city of Nzérékoré. A further five people also tested positive. Keita also confirmed more testing was underway, and attempts to trace and isolate further cases had begun.<ref>{{Cite web |date=14 February 2021 |title=Guinea records first Ebola deaths since 2016 |url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-africa-56060728 |access-date=14 February 2021 |website=BBC News}}</ref> On 14 February, the Guinean government declared an Ebola epidemic.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Guinea declares Ebola epidemic after three deaths |url=https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2021/2/14/guinea-sees-first-ebola-deaths-since-2016 |access-date=15 February 2021 |website=www.aljazeera.com |language=en}}</ref> The outbreak may have started following reactivation of a [[viral latency|latent case]] in a survivor of an earlier outbreak.<ref name="KuperschmidtReactivation">{{Cite journal |vauthors=Kupferschmidt, K |date=March 2021 |title=Ebola virus may lurk in survivors for many years |journal=Science |volume=371 |issue=6535 |pages=1188 |bibcode=2021Sci...371.1188K |doi=10.1126/science.371.6535.1188 |issn=0036-8075 |pmid=33737465 |s2cid=232303082}}</ref><ref name="VirologicalKeitaGuinea21">{{Cite web | vauthors = Keita AK, Düx A, Diallo H, Calvignac-Spencer S, Sow MS, Keita MB, Sidibe Y, Ayouba A, Lemarcis F, Marí Saéz A | display-authors = 6 |date=12 March 2021 |title=Resurgence of Ebola virus in Guinea after 5 years calls for careful attention to survivors without creating further stigmatization |url=https://virological.org/t/guinea-2021-ebov-genomes/651 |access-date=23 March 2021 |website=virological.org |language=en}}</ref> As of 4 May 2021, 23 cases were reported, with no new cases or deaths since 3 April 2021.<ref name=":3" /> A 42-day countdown period was started on 8 May 2021, and on 19 June, the outbreak was declared over.<ref name=":3" /><ref>{{Cite tweet |number=1406227793281757189 |user=WHOAFRO |title=The #Ebola outbreak in #Guinea was declared over today! Here is a look back at the hard work of communities, health workers, partners & Guinea's health authorities to bring this outbreak to an end while also fighting #COVID19.}}</ref> Summary: Please note that all contributions to Christianpedia may be edited, altered, or removed by other contributors. If you do not want your writing to be edited mercilessly, then do not submit it here. You are also promising us that you wrote this yourself, or copied it from a public domain or similar free resource (see Christianpedia:Copyrights for details). Do not submit copyrighted work without permission! Cancel Editing help (opens in new window) Discuss this page