{"id":2979,"date":"2016-03-18T18:31:17","date_gmt":"2016-03-18T18:31:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/en.humanrightsagency.com\/?p=2979"},"modified":"2016-03-18T18:31:17","modified_gmt":"2016-03-18T18:31:17","slug":"guinea-un-health-agency-sends-specialists-help-contain-ebola-flare","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.agencedh.org\/en\/guinea-un-health-agency-sends-specialists-help-contain-ebola-flare\/","title":{"rendered":"Guinea : UN health agency sends specialists to help contain Ebola flare-up"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The United Nations health agency has dispatched a team of specialists to Guinea after 2 new cases of Ebola were confirmed yesterday, the first re-emergence of the deadly virus in the Western African country since its original outbreak was declared over on 29 December 2015.<\/p>\n<p>Guinea\u2019s National Emergency Response Centre is convening a meeting today to further coordinate a rapid response to contain the flare-up, the World Health Organization (WHO) said in a press release.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWHO continues to stress that Sierra Leone, as well as Liberia and Guinea, are still at risk of Ebola flare-ups, largely due to virus persistence in some survivors, and must remain on high alert and ready to respond,\u201d the agency said.<\/p>\n<p>Guinean health officials in the region alerted WHO and partners on Wednesday to three unexplained deaths in recent weeks in Koropara, a village in the southern prefecture of Nz\u00e9r\u00e9kor\u00e9.<\/p>\n<p>Yesterday, Guinea\u2019s Ministry of Health, WHO, the United States Centers for Disease Control (CDC) and the UN Children\u2019s Fund (UNICEF) sent in investigators. Samples were taken from four individuals. A mother and her 5-year-old son, relatives of the decreased, have been taken to a treatment facility after the two confirmed positive for Ebola virus in lab tests.<\/p>\n<p>In coordination with Guinea\u2019s health ministry, WHO today deployed an initial team of epidemiologists, surveillance experts, vaccinators, social mobilizers, contact tracers and an anthropologist to support an inter-agency response.<\/p>\n<p>More specialists are expected to arrive in the coming days. 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