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At least 5 dead in Guinea Ebola flare-up: health officials

By AFP
22 Mar 2016
Health workers wearing protective gear gesture at the Nongo ebola treatment centre in Conakry, Guinea, on August 21, 2015. By Cellou Binani (AFP/File)

Conakry (AFP) - A flare-up of Ebola in Guinea has killed five people since December when the country was declared free of Ebola transmission, health authorities said Tuesday, confirming two more deaths registered in recent days.

"Since the re-emergence of the disease, we have recorded five deaths, three probable and two confirmed," said Fode Tass Sylla, spokesman for the government's Ebola response unit, adding that 961 people may have come into contact with the victims.

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