Via Guineematin.com: 6 deaths from Ebola in Guinea: a serious mistake that costs money? Now the question is: Where and how did the old woman, nurse Lucie Haba's stepmother, acquire Ebola? The Google translation:
A serious error by the agents of the Gouéké health center would have favored the spread of the Ebola virus, which reappeared recently in this sub-prefecture located more than 40 kilometers from the city of N'Zérékoré (in southern Guinea). The latter would have made a false diagnosis on a patient they received in December 2020 and who would be the first case of Ebola.
It was the health authorities of N'Zérékoré who announced the news on Wednesday, February 17, 2021, reports the correspondent of Guineematin.com on the spot. Contrary to what has been announced so far, the Ebola virus did not reappear at the end of January in Guinea, but long before. The nurse who died between January 27 and January 2021 is therefore not the first victim of this disease.
Her stepmother, a 70-year-old who died in December 2020 at the Gouéké health center, is said to be patient zero (the first case). In any case, this is what the daily report of the Ebola hemorrhagic fever response teams published this Wednesday, February 17 in N'Zérékoré.
According to this report, the old woman was hospitalized at the Gouéké health center after developing a vaginal hemorrhage. Health workers who diagnosed her concluded that she had "severe anemia". But, a few weeks after her death, the nurse who was caring for her and who happened to be her stepdaughter fell ill and also died. Several people who attended her funeral subsequently fell ill and three of them died.
This is why, a few days after the tests which revealed the presence of the Ebola virus disease in Gouéké, the health authorities decided to count the old woman among the victims of Ebola. Which makes 6 deaths caused by the epidemic since its resurgence in Guinea. Deaths, most of which are believed to be due to the false diagnosis made by the health workers who received the first patient and which led to new contaminations.
As for contacts, they went from 164 to 216 in N'Zérékoré, announce the health authorities.
