Guinea officially declared an Ebola epidemic after the death of three people from the virus. Few persons fell ill with diarrhoea, vomiting and bleeding after attending the burial of a nurse.
Between 2013 and 2016 more than 11,000 people died in the West Africa due to the Ebola epidemic which began in Guinea. This new outbreak is in roughly the same area where the epidemic first began in December 2013.
Ebola is a virus that initially leads to a sudden fever, intense weakness, muscle pain and sore throat. It later progresses to vomiting, diarrhoea and internal and external bleeding. Then patients die from dehydration and multiple organ failure.
People get infected when they have direct contact through broken skin, or the mouth and nose, with the blood, vomit, faeces or bodily fluids of someone with the disease.
(Source-BBC)