The Guinean Minister of Health, Remy Lamah on Thursday
demanded that Côte d'Ivoire carry out a new analysis.
He also stressed in the letter that the Guinean medical team
sent to Abidjan had not been able to access the patient.
In response, the Ivorian Ministry of Health said they had no
"doubt" about the diagnosis.
He further reiterated that the Ebola variant found was
similar to the one that was detected in Sierra Leone and Liberia
He also said that the Pasteur Institute of Abidjan, which
analyzed the samples, "has been accredited for hemorrhagic events by the
WHO, so it is able to make an analysis of Ebola virus fevers.
The patient also depicted symptoms of the Ebola virus-like
persistent diarrhea, fever, and vomiting.
Forty-nine cases of people having been in contact with a
young Guinean woman who tested positive for the Ebola virus in Abidjan have
been identified so far, the World Health Organization (WHO) said Thursday.
The young Guinean woman had left the town of Labé in Guinea
last week to travel to the Ivorian economic capital, 1,500 km away.
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