West Africa Ebola outbreak still spreading, 'situation serious': WHO

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West Africa Ebola outbreak still spreading, 'situation serious': WHO

By Stephanie Nebehay and Saliou Samb GENEVA/CONAKRY (Reuters) - Guinea's capital Conakry has recorded its first new Ebola cases in more than a month, while other previously unaffected areas have also reported infections in the past week, according to the World Health Organisation. The spread of the two-month-old outbreak, which Guinean authorities earlier said had been contained, risks further complicating the fight against the virus in a region already struggling with weak healthcare systems and porous borders. "The situation is serious, you can't say it is under control as cases are continuing and it is spreading geographically," Dr Pierre Formenty, a WHO expert who recently returned from Guinea, told a news briefing in Geneva on Wednesday. In fact it is because we are not able to capture all the outbreak that we were under the impression there was a decline," he said.

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