Ebola virus has killed 200 passes killed in Guinea

virus spreadMore than 200 people have died from the Ebola virus in Guinea, according to the World Health Organization (WHO). The virus is increasingly influenced by neighboring countries Sierra Leone and Liberia.
 

The World Health Organization (WHO), the UN health agency said on Wednesday it had registered 328 confirmed or suspected cases of Ebola in Guinea, including 208 deaths. Twenty-one of the deaths were registered between May 29 and June 1 only.The report comes despite 24 April statement from the health ministry Guinea who said the situation was "more and more out of control thanks to the measures taken by the government and its partners."More than half of new deaths in Guinea Gueckedou located in the southern region, near the border of Sierra Leone and Liberia.The two neighbors are also getting affected, the WHO said. In Sierra Leone, there have been 79 confirmed and suspected cases to date. The virus also seems to have reappeared in Liberia, which earlier this year and has seen 12 suspected Ebola cases, including nine deaths were confirmed.Such as Ebola hemorrhagic fever usually spreads through direct contact with blood or fluids of an infected person, or objects that have been contaminated with infected fluids. Ebola virus causes hemorrhagic fever and severe internal bleeding. There is no vaccine or specific treatment with mortality rates of up to 90 percent.This virus was first identified in 1976 in what is now the Democratic Republic of Congo. Nearly 300 people died in that outbreak, the deadliest in history.