Guinea declares public health emergency over Ebola

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Guinea declares public health emergency over Ebola

<p><a href="http://news.yahoo.com/guinea-declares-public-health-emergency-over-ebola-194652666--finance.html"><img src="http://l.yimg.com/bt/api/res/1.2/22QVFBCx1oiieW0uGLT.9g--/YXBwaWQ9eW5ld3M7Zmk9ZmlsbDtoPTg2O3E9NzU7dz0xMzA-/http://media.zenfs.com/en_us/News/Reuters/2014-08-14T194652Z_1_LYNXMPEA7D0VN_RTROPTP_2_HEALTH-EBOLA.JPG" width="130" height="86" alt="A U.N. convoy of soldiers passes a screen displaying a message on Ebola on a street in Abidjan" align="left" title="A U.N. convoy of soldiers passes a screen displaying a message on Ebola on a street in Abidjan" border="0" /></a>By Saliou Samb CONAKRY (Reuters) - Guinea has declared a public health emergency over an Ebola epidemic that has killed more than 1,000 people in three West African states and is sending health workers to all affected border points, a government official said. An estimated 377 people have died in Guinea since the world's worst outbreak of Ebola began in March in remote parts of a border region near Sierra Leone and Liberia. Guinea says its outbreak is under control with the numbers of new cases falling, but the measures are needed to prevent fresh infection from neighboring countries hit by the epidemic. &quot;Trucks full of health materials and carrying health personnel are going to all the border points with Liberia and Sierra Leone,&quot; Aboubacar Sidiki Diakité, president of Guinea's Ebola commission, said late on Wednesday.</p><br clear="all"/>

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