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(FILES) This file photo taken on June 28, 2014 shows a member of Doctors Without Borders (MSF) putting on protective gear at the isolation ward of the Donka Hospital in Conakry, where people infected with the Ebola virus are being treated. (Photo by CELLOU BINANI / AFP)
Guinea launched an Ebola vaccination campaign on Tuesday after a fresh outbreak of the deadly disease struck the country this month, with officials hoping to eradicate the virus in six weeks.
The country reported new Ebola cases on February 13 the first in West Africa since a 2013-2016 epidemic that left more than 11,300 dead in Guinea, Liberia and Sierra Leone.
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Medical workers disinfect the coffin of a deceased unconfirmed Ebola patient inside an Ebola Treatment Centre run by the Alliance for International Medical Action (ALIMA), in Beni on August 13, 2018. Photo: VCGA man in a navy suit grinned as he left an airbase in Guinea s capital Conakry on Wednesday after being vaccinated for Ebola, one of the first to receive the jab since the deadly disease reemerged in the West African country.
He was among a handful of people to volunteer for an early Ebola vaccination as part of a program the government hopes will crush the outbreak by April.
Guinea is continuing its fight against the deadly Ebola disease with its mass vaccination campaign that started on Tuesday.
It comes after the latest outbreak this month which killed five people in the southeastern region of Nzérékoré.
They were the first cases in Guinea since the 2013-2016 epidemic that killed more than 11,300 in West Africa.
The World Health Organization has sent 11,000 vaccines to Guinea this week and plans to send 8,000 more. Here we vaccinate contacts first, since the pathology was discovered in this hospital, we are now vaccinating contacts first, said Dr Kaba Keita, general director of the regional hospital of Nzérékoré.