An Unprecedented Ebola Epidemic in Guinea

Sam Taylor/MSF

 

Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) teams are facing an unprecedented phenomenon with an outbreak of Ebola now hitting several areas from the southeast of the country to capital city Conakry. Institut Pasteur confirmed the presence of the Ebola virus in Guinea at the end of March. At the beginning of April, the Ministry of Health reported 134 suspected cases and 84 deaths.