(MENAFN- Qatar News Agency) An outbreak of the Ebola virus - which has already killed 59 people in Guinea - has reached the capital Conakry, the UN's children agency (UNICEF) has warned.
UNICEF said the haemorrhagic fever had spread quickly from southern Guinea, hundreds of kilometres away, according to the (BBC). Scores of cases have been recorded since the outbreak began last month.
There is no known cure or vaccine. It is spread by close personal contact with people who are infected and kills between 25% and 90% of victims. Symptoms include internal and external bleeding, diarrhoea and vomiting. At least 59 out of 80 who contracted Ebola have died so far in Guinea," the UNICEF said in a statement.
The UNICEF statement also said that at least three victims of the virus were children. Outbreaks of Ebola occur primarily in remote villages in Central and West Africa, near tropical rainforests, the World Health Organization says. Recent years have seen outbreaks in Uganda and Democratic Republic of Congo
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