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Source: Reuters
A logo is pictured on the headquarters of the WHO in Geneva
FILE PHOTO: A logo of the World Health Organization (WHO), is
seen before a news conference in Geneva
Guinea declared a new Ebola outbreak on Sunday in the first
resurgence of the disease there since the 2013-2016 outbreak,
while the Democratic Republic of Congo reported a resurgence of
the virus on Feb. 7.
"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 WHO's Margaret Harris told a Geneva briefing.
She did not specify the other countries.
Harris added that health authorities had identified close to 300
Ebola contacts in the Congo outbreak and around 109 in the
Guinea one.
Gene sequencing of Ebola samples from both Congo and Guinea to
learn more about origins of new outbreaks and identify the
strains was under way, she said.
"We don't know if this is down to Ebola persisting in the human
population or if it's simply moving again from the animal
population but the genetic sequencing that's ongoing will help
with that information," she said.
(Reporting by Emma Farge and Emma Thomasson; Editing by Alison
Williams)
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