Three
more people in Guinea have been infected with the Ebola virus, a senior health
official said on Wednesday, further dampening hopes of an imminent end to the
world's worst recorded outbreak of the disease.
The
three were infected in Forecariah in western Guinea from the family of a woman
who died of Ebola and whose body was handled without appropriate protection,
said Fode Tass Sylla, spokesman for the national center for the fight against
Ebola.
"In
all, nine sick people are being treated at our centres throughout the country
and most are connected to the dead woman," he told Reuters, adding that
authorities had known of the three fresh cases since Saturday.
The
epidemic began when a 2-year-old boy fell ill in a remote Guinean village on
Dec. 26, 2013, and now risks dragging into a third year and into 2016.
It
has killed around 11,300 people out of around 28,500 known cases in Guinea and
neighboring Liberia and Sierra Leone, according to U.N. World Health Organization
figures.
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