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Guinea's Ebola Numbers May Be Higher Than Reported

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VOICE OF AMERICA by Kim Lewis                                                                                     Jan. 27, 2015

...Emmanuel d’Harcourt, the senior health director for the International Rescue Committee, warned that the story behind declining numbers of new Ebola cases is different for Guinea, Sierra Leone and Liberia.

..In Guinea, he highlighted, there are questions about the actual numbers."

The whole epidemic in the three countries really flared up because the international community and WHO, and Doctors Without Borders declared the epidemic over because there were no infections for 21 days. And in fact what was happening was not that there weren’t cases, but that they were being hidden, and the same dynamic that caused that epidemic to burn underground without being reported is still in place,” said d’Harcourt.Read complese story.

http://www.voanews.com/content/ebola-irc-trust-cases-findings-lessons-government-radio-epidemic-who/2615225.html

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