Health
Calls for fast action after Ebola outbreaks in Guinea, Congo – The New Humanitarian
Building on advances in vaccines to combat the virus, aid agencies say working with local communities is the key to containing its spread.
Two new outbreaks of Ebola in two weeks first in the Democratic Republic of Congo and now in Guinea have sent health teams scrambling to try to contain the spread of the deadly disease, ramping up contact tracing and medical support to local authorities.
Guinea declared an Ebola epidemic on 14 February after three people died and four others became ill in the rural southeast of the country the first reported outbreak in West Africa since a region-wide pandemic ended five years ago after claiming…
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