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| Virus in Guinea capital Conakry not Ebola | Virus in Guinea capital Conakry not Ebola |
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| Tests on suspected cases of deadly Ebola virus in Guinea's capital Conakry are negative, health officials say. | Tests on suspected cases of deadly Ebola virus in Guinea's capital Conakry are negative, health officials say. |
| On Sunday, UN officials said that the virus had spread to the capital, a port city of up to two million, from remote forests in the south, where some 59 people have died. | On Sunday, UN officials said that the virus had spread to the capital, a port city of up to two million, from remote forests in the south, where some 59 people have died. |
| But a World Health Organization (WHO) spokesman told the BBC the Conakry tests had come back negative. | |
| Ebola is spread by close contact and kills between 25% and 90% of victims. | Ebola is spread by close contact and kills between 25% and 90% of victims. |
| There is no known cure or vaccine. | |
| Symptoms include internal and external bleeding, diarrhoea and vomiting. | |
| After two people died from a haemorrhagic fever in Conakry, samples were sent to the Pasteur Institute in neighbouring Senegal for testing. | |
| WHO spokesman Collins Boakye-Agyemang told the BBC these had shown that the victims had not been infected with Ebola. It is not clear what killed them. | |
| The outbreak is said to be the first time Ebola has hit Guinea. | |
| Recent cases have been thousands of miles away, in Uganda and Democratic Republic of Congo. | |
| Outbreaks of Ebola occur primarily in remote villages in Central and West Africa, near tropical rainforests, the World Health Organization says. |