Guinea Is Seeing More Ebola Cases: Can The Trend Be Stopped?

NPR                                                                                                                                   Nov. 7, 2014

By Jason Beaubien
CONAKRY  Guinea-- In the current Ebola crisis, much of the focus has been on Liberia and Sierra Leone. But the virus also continues to spread in Guinea, where the first case in the current outbreak was identified in March.

Red Cross workers in Guinea carry the body of an Ebola victim to a cemetery full of fresh graves for others who have succumbed to the disease.

According to the latest figures from the World Health Organization, Guinea has had fewer cases than either Sierra Leone (4,759) or Liberia (6,525). WHO has recorded 1,731 Ebola cases and 1,041 deaths in Guinea. This, however, is just a few dozen fatalities fewer than in Sierra Leone. And despite the lower numbers in Guinea, some data suggest the outbreak is spreading faster there than in the neighboring countries.

Q&A with Marc Poncin, response coordinator for Doctors Without Borders in Conakry, Guinea:

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