Guinean experts sent to Côte d'Ivoire to fight Ebola
Conakry, Guinea (PANA) - The Guinean government on Sunday dispatched a team of experts and 5,000 doses of vaccine to Côte d'Ivoire where a case of Ebola virus was detected on a woman who arrived from neighbouring Guinea, the National Health Security Agency (ANSS) announced on its Facebook page.
It said that the batch of vaccines also included 3,000 doses of Johnson-Johnson vaccine and 2,000 doses of Merck vaccine donated by World Health Organisation (WHO) and the UN Children's Fund (UNICEF).
After the Ebola epidemic of 2013, Guinea was again hit last February by the disease.
The first case was discovered again in the region of Nzérékoré in the south, more than 1,000 km from the capital, Conakry, where it claimed several lives before the government announced its eradication three months later.
Last June, the government and WHO officially announced the end of the epidemic in Guinea.
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