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Two new Ebola cases reported in Guinea

A girl suspected of being infected with the Ebola virus having her temperature checked at the government hospital in Kenema, Sierra Leone, on August 16, 2014. (Photo:AFP)

Two people have tested positive for Ebola in Guinea, the government said on Thursday, hours after the World Health Organization (WHO) declared neighbouring Sierra Leone's latest outbreak was over.

Four people were tested and two of them were found to have Ebola, a government agency spokesman said. They were all from Korokpara, a village where three people from the same family have died in the past few weeks from diarrhea and vomiting.

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