Via guineenews.org: Ebola in Gouécké: contacts of Lucie, patient zero actively sought (authorities). The Google translation:
In Gouécké, the epicenter of the new Ebola epidemic in Guinea, local authorities and health workers are hard at work to find those who took part in the funeral of nurse Lucie Haba, the one who is probably patient zero.
“She was a woman who was very well known and who also had relatives all over the neighboring villages. In addition to the people of Gouécké, people therefore came from Womey and Soulouta to attend her funeral,” Ibrahima Koné, the sub-prefect of this constituency located some 45 kilometers from the urban commune of N'Zérékoré, told Guinéenews. "There are many contact persons," he added.
Following Lucie Haba, on February 12, two of her brothers died the next day. According to our information, they were the ones who took care of her when she contracted the disease. Lucie's husband and his two co-wives also contracted the disease, according to the sub-prefect. They were all transferred to N'Zérékoré. From N'Zérékoré, the husband was transferred to Conakry.
Speaking to our colleagues from Djoma TV, the regional director of health of N'Zérékoré, Adama Kaba, reported that there are 9 cases including 4 deaths since the onset of the disease. Speaking of the five alive, he said that four are hospitalized in N'Zérékoré and one in Conakry.
Dr Adama Kaba confirmed that the time has come to search for contacts in Gouécké. "We have started to identify all the contacts of suspected cases [...] because we must have their list," said the regional director.
Speaking certainly of the contacts already identified, he will say: “We made the cartography, that is to say the places of their residences. We are monitoring them every day, from morning to evening, to follow the evolution of their state of health. If someone develops a fever or suffers from bloody diarrhea, they are taken to CTS-PI (Ebola treatment center) for confirmation.”
What about unidentified contacts?
"We did not find any of them today," the sub-prefect told us Monday evening. Among these contacts, the sub-prefect told us, are the wife and children of one of the deceased brothers of the late Lucie. In Gouécké, it is rumored that they are in the Kabieta district. Except that it remains to find them.
