However, Guinean health officials have just announced that two new confirmed cases of Ebloa have been confirmed on Friday in an area previously untouched by the virus.
Even before the Ebola outbreak in Sierra Leone, the disease is believed to have already killed 11 people in Liberia.
Ebola is endemic to Democratic Republic of Congo, Gabon, Uganda and South Sudan. Scientists have believed initially that Central Africa's Zaire strain of the disease was responsible for the infections in Guinea and Liberia.
Ebola outbreak in Sierra Leone came after researchers to later publish a study saying the West African outbreak was caused by a new strain of Ebola.
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