Guinea haemorrhagic fever may have crossed into Sierra Leone

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Guinea haemorrhagic fever may have crossed into Sierra Leone

An outbreak of haemorrhagic fever that has killed 29 people in Guinea may have spread across the border into neighbouring Sierra Leone, according to a World Health Organisation (WHO) document and a senior Sierra Leone health official. While the exact type of the fever, which is characterised by bleeding, has yet to be identified, a senior official in Guinea said on Friday that preliminary tests had narrowed down the possibilities to Ebola and Marburg Haemorrhagic Fever. Sierra Leone's Chief Medical Officer Dr. Brima Kargbo said authorities were investigating the case of a 14-year-old, who died in the town of Buedu in the eastern Kailahun District. The boy had travelled to Guinea to attend the funeral of one of the outbreak's earlier victims.

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