The senior health official in Guinea
who spoke on, October 28, three more people have been infected with the Ebola
virus. According to Fode Tass Sylla, spokesman for the national centre for the
fight against Ebola, 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.
"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.