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Thursday 29 Oct 2015 - 14:21 Makkah mean time-16-1-1437
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Conakry, (IINA) - A Guinean health official said on Wednesday that three Guineans were infected with the Ebola virus, which brings the total number of Ebola patients in Guinea to nine, Reuters reported.
The three were infected in the village of Forecariah in western Guinea, and they were from the family of a woman who died of Ebola and whose body was handled without appropriate protection, said Fode Sylla, spokesman for the national center for the fight against Ebola.
He pointed out: "In all, nine sick people are being treated at our centers throughout the country and most are connected to the dead woman", adding that authorities had known of the three new cases since Saturday.
According to the World Health Organization (WHO), the epidemic began when a 2-year-old boy fell ill in a remote Guinean village on December 26, 2013, and now risks dragging into a third year. It has killed around 11,300 people out of around 28,500 known cases in Guinea and neighboring Liberia and Sierra Leone.
Liberia was declared free of Ebola transmission on September 3 after 42 days with no new cases while Sierra Leone will be declared Ebola free on November 7 if there are no new transmission cases, the WHO said.
WHO noted that the 42-day countdown starts once the last patient tests negative a second time, usually after a 48-hour gap following their first negative test.
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