Yesterday tuesday a fifth person died of Ebola ever since it resurfaced 17th of March in Guinea.According to Fode Sylla Tass,spokesman for National Coordination of the fight against Ebola in Guinea said that,the latest case was detected in Macenta Prefecture,about 200 kilometers from the village of Korokpara where the four other recent Ebols related deaths occurred.The man who has not been identified,had recently visited Korokpara and had been in direct contact with the first patients,.He was buried in the village of Makoidou without any sanitary precaution.Burials,where bodies of the deceased are often washed,have been a main cause of transmission of Ebola,which has killed at least 11,300 people in West Africa since 2013 in the worst outbreak on record.It was not immediately clear how the people from Korokpara had contracted the disease but the area had previously resisted efforts to fight the illness in the initial epidemic.Guinea's Ebola coordination unit has traced an estimated 816 people who may have come into contact with the first four recent victims.Liberia closed its border with Guinea yesterday tuesday as a precaution against the latest outbreak.One more photo below.
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