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Guinea medics track suspected Ebola cluster after one case confirmed

A member of the French Red Cross disinfects the area around a motionless person suspected of carrying the Ebola virus. [Reuters]

Medics in Guinea were on Friday racing to track down suspected carriers of the Ebola virus, after they fled a southeastern town where the country’s first case in nearly a month was detected the previous day.

The case followed a “cluster of suspicious deaths” in Soulouta, the West African country’s World Health Organization (WHO) representative, Georges Alfred Ki-Zerbo, said.

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