Fever cases reported in Guinea's capital 'not Ebola' official

(MENAFN- AFP) Guinea announced on Monday that samples taken from three suspected cases of Ebola, which led to two deaths in the capital Conakry, had tested negative for the virus."The Pasteur Institute in Dakar worked urgently all last night on samples taken from suspected cases here in Conakry which were all negative," said Sakoba Keita, the health ministry's chief disease prevention officer."So for now, there's no Ebola in Conakry, but haemorrhagic fever whose nature remains to be determined."Medics and aid workers are battling to contain west Africa's first outbreak of the deadly Ebola virus, which has killed dozens of people in Guinea's southern forest region.