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A Guinea-Bissau customs official watches arrivals from Conakry, the capital of Guinea, on Tuesday, April 8. Conakry is being ravaged by an Ebola virus epidemic, and Guinea-Bissau officials are concerned about a possible case inside their borders.
Guinea-Bissau nurse Egidia Almeida scans a Guinean citizen coming from Conakry on April 8. Dozens of people have died from an Ebola outbreak in coastal West Africa, aid workers reported.
A scientist separates blood cells from plasma cells to isolate any Ebola RNA in order to test for the virus at the European Mobile Laboratory in Gueckedou, Guinea, near the borders of Sierra Leone and Liberia, on Thursday, April 3. Ebola is one of the world’s deadliest viruses, causing a hemorrhagic fever that kills up to 90% of those infected. It spreads in the blood and shuts down the immune system, causing high fever, headache and muscle pain, often accompanied by bleeding.
Members of the medical aid organization Medecins sans Frontieres carry a dead body in Gueckedou on Friday, April 1.
Gloves and boots used by medical personnel dry in the sun April 1 outside a center for Ebola victims in Gueckedou.
A health specialist works Monday, March 31, in a tent laboratory set up at a Medecins sans Frontieres facility in southern Guinea.
Health specialists work March 31 at an isolation ward for patients at the facility in southern Guinea.
Workers associated with Medecins sans Frontieres prepare isolation and treatment areas Friday, March 28, in Guinea.
- The virus is still limited to Guinea and Liberia
- Nineteen suspected cases reported in Sierra Leone tested negative
- Ebola, one of the world’s deadliest viruses, kills up to 90% of those infected
(CNN) — A total of 142 deaths have been reported from the Ebola outbreak in Guinea and Liberia, the World Health Organization said.
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The virus is still limited to the two nations, the World Health Organization said Tuesday, despite rumors of it spreading to other countries.
Nineteen suspected cases reported in Sierra Leone tested negative for the virus, it said.
In a statement on its website, WHO said Guinea has reported a total of 208 clinical cases of Ebola, including 136 deaths. Liberia has reported 34 cases, including six deaths.
Ebola is one of the world’s deadliest viruses and kills up to 90% of those infected. It spreads in the blood and shuts down the immune system, causing high fever, headache and muscle pain, often accompanied by bleeding.
It’s the first emergence of Ebola in western Africa, which means doctors and health officials in the region don’t have any experience with the virus.
The aid organization Doctors Without Borders has called the outbreak unprecedented because previous cases have been limited to a small area.
The virus is named after the Ebola River in the Democratic Republic of Congo.
