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Consul of Guinea in Lebanon Ali Saade: No Lebanese expatriates in Guinea infected with Ebola virus

01-04-2014 | 03:28

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Consul of Guinea in Lebanon Ali Saade: No Lebanese expatriates in Guinea infected with Ebola virus

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The consul of Guinea in Lebanon, Ali Saade said on Tuesday that no Lebanese expatriates in Guinea were infected with the Ebola virus.

He also noted that there are no Lebanese expatriates living in the infected Guinean areas, adding that most live far away from areas infected by the virus.

Saade said that the Guinean authorities have joined efforts with the World Health Organization to face the virus and contain it.

"Results have shown that new cases of the illness have not been reported in the last five days,” Saade added.

The tropical virus leads to hemorrhagic fever, causing muscle pain, weakness, vomiting, diarrhea, organ failure and unstoppable bleeding.

No treatment or vaccine has yet been found.

It can be transmitted to humans from wild animals, and between humans through direct blood, sweat or sexual contact.

Last week, Guinea identified the Ebola virus as the source of a highly contagious epidemic raging through its southern forests.

Experts in the west African nation had been unable to identify the disease, whose symptoms were first observed seven weeks ago, but scientists studying samples in the French city of Lyon confirmed it was Ebola, the Guinean health ministry said.

The first breakout of Ebola, a virus spread by close contact, was in 1976 in what is now Democratic Republic of Congo. There is no vaccine or drug that fights the virus to date.

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