Epidemic is not yet defeated More Ebola cases confirmed

The Ebola epidemic in West Africa, which has been rampant for more than two years, has apparently not yet been defeated. Although the World Health Organization (WHO) recently announced the end of the epidemic, two new Ebola cases have now been confirmed in Sierra Leone.
Two more Ebola cases confirmed
As the World Health Organization (WHO) confirmed, there are two new Ebola cases in Sierra Leone. In the West African country, which recently quarantined more than 100 people, a second woman was infected with the dangerous infectious disease. As WHO spokesman Tarik Jasarevic said in an e-mail to news agency AFP, she was the aunt of a student who died of Ebola last week. The 38-year-old woman developed typical Ebola symptoms on Wednesday. The patient was reportedly lying in a quarantine ward in Magburaka in the center of the country.

Again new cases of Ebola. Image: Syda Productions - fotolia

Authorities expect further illnesses
The information was confirmed by the Ministry of Health of the country. According to a spokesman, according to AFP, the sick woman helped wash the body of her 22-year-old niece to prepare him for an Islamic funeral. The authorities expect further cases of illness, especially among those who had been involved in the washing. According to experts, the dangerous virus is transmitted by the contact with blood or other body fluids of those affected or deceased. A transmission through the breath exclude experts, however, according to the current state of knowledge.

WHO had already announced the end of the epidemic
WHO announced last week the end of the Ebola epidemic. But one day later, the organization has to announce that an Ebola suspicion had been confirmed in a student who died on Tuesday. To declare a country self-sustaining, there must have been no new cases for 42 days - twice the maximum incubation period. For Sierra Leone, this was already the beginning of November, for Guinea since the end of December. In addition to these two countries, Liberia was the third state to have been hit particularly hard by the Ebola epidemic of more than 11,300 deaths over the past two years. (Ad)