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Sure, a few individuals would know about it, but it wouldn't be all over the news and there wouldn't be multiple threads about it. It likely would have been a brief one line in a world news segment and not even brought up on DCUM. [/quote]

It's been in the news for months.

[quote]Ebola Spreads to Guinea Capital Conakry With at Least 59 Deaths

By Ougna Camara and Franz Wild Mar 23, 2014 6:08 AM ET 
http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2014-03-23/ebola-spreads-to-guinea-capital-conakry-with-at-least-59-deaths.html? [/quote]

[quote]Ebola detected in Guinea victims, 50 dead

Boubacar Diallo, The Associated Press 3:21 p.m. EDT March 23, 2014 
http://www.wtsp.com/story/news/health/2014/03/23/ebola-breakout-guinea-50-dead/6790991/

CONAKRY, Guinea (AP) - Samples from victims of a viral hemorrhagic fever that has killed more than 50 people in Guinea have tested positive for the Ebola virus, government officials said Sunday, marking the first time an outbreak among humans has been detected in this West African nation. [/quote]

[quote]Guinea Ebola outbreak: Tons of medicine, protection kits arrive to contain virus

There are fears the virus could spread to neighbouring countries

Thomson Reuters Posted: Mar 23, 2014 6:22 PM ET Last Updated: Mar 24, 2014 10:10 AM ET 
http://www.cbc.ca/news/world/guinea-ebola-outbreak-tons-of-medicine-protection-kits-arrive-to-contain-virus-1.2583628?cmp=rss

Health officials fighting an outbreak of Ebola in Guinea have dispatched specialized medical equipment, imposed restrictions on funerals and are seeking to contain panic to prevent the fever from spreading.

There have been 29 confirmed deaths from the hemorrhagic fever among 59 people killed by a mysterious illness in southeastern Guinea since early February, international medical charity Doctors Without Borders said.

U.N. health officials have expressed concern that the disease, which has a fatality rate of 90 percent and has not been recorded in the West African state before, may spread to Sierra Leone after cases showing similar symptoms, including diarrhea, vomiting and bleeding, were reported there. [/quote]

USA Today

[quote]Ebola outbreak in Guinea may spread to Liberia

AP 4:19 p.m. EDT March 24, 2014 
http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/world/2014/03/24/ebola-outbreak-may-spread-to-liberia/6835825/

CONAKRY, Guinea (AP) — An outbreak of the deadly Ebola virus is believed to have killed at least 59 people in Guinea and may already have spread to neighboring Liberia, health officials said Monday.

Health workers in Guinea are trying to contain the spread of the disease which causes severe internal bleeding. In neighboring Liberia, health officials said they are investigating five deaths after a group of people crossed the border from Guinea in search of medical treatment. [/quote]

NY Daily News

[quote]Canada rules out suspected case of Ebola

The severely ill patient remained quarantined in Saskatoon. He became sick after returning from Liberia, which along with neighboring Guinea is fighting an outbreak of the virus that is suspected to have killed at least 64.

BY STEPHEN REX BROWN NEW YORK DAILY NEWS Tuesday, March 25, 2014, 8:33 AM 
http://www.nydailynews.com/life-style/health/man-hospitalized-canada-symptoms-ebola-article-1.1732853

A sick man traveling returning from Liberia to Canada did not contract the Ebola virus, officials said.

A traveler who became seriously ill after returning from Liberia did not contract the Ebola virus as was feared, health officials said Tuesday.

The man showed symptoms of hemorrhagic fever after arriving in Canada and remains quarantined in a Saskatchewan hospital. [/quote]

Business Day Online

[quote]Senegal shuts border with Guinea to prevent Ebola spreading

March 30, 2014 | Filed under: World | Author: Editor 
http://businessdayonline.com/2014/03/senegal-shuts-border-with-guinea-to-prevent-ebola-spreading/#.UzjtQlyScW8

Senegal closed its land border with Guinea on Saturday to try to prevent the spread of the Ebola virus, which Guinean authorities say is suspected of killing 70 people in what would be the deadliest outbreak in seven years.

The discovery of 11 people suspected to have died of Ebola in Sierra Leone and Liberia in recent days has stirred concern that one of the most lethal infectious diseases known to man could spread in a poor corner of West Africa, where health systems are ill-equipped to cope. [/quote]

[quote]Guinea reports Ebola death toll rises to 78; Liberia confirms first death from virus

BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS MARCH 31, 2014 8:53 AM 
http://www.canada.com/health/Guinea+reports+Ebola+death+toll+rises+Liberia+confirms+first+death/9680820/story.html

CONAKRY, Guinea - Health authorities in the West African nation of Guinea say at least 78 people now have died after contracting the Ebola virus.

Victims develop several internal and external bleeding from the virus, which has no cure.

Guinea's Health Ministry says the disease first emerged in the forests of southern Guinea and then spread to the capital of some 2 million people after an infected patient travelled there with his family. [/quote]

Reuters

[quote]Scale of Guinea's Ebola epidemic unprecedented: aid agency

BY SALIOU SAMB 
CONAKRY Mon Mar 31, 2014 10:43am EDT 
http://www.reuters.com/article/2014/03/31/us-guinea-ebola-idUSBREA2U10E20140331?feedType=RSS&feedName=healthNews

(Reuters) - Guinea faces an Ebola epidemic on an unprecedented scale as it battles to contain confirmed cases now scattered across several locations that are far apart, medical charity Medecins Sans Frontieres said on Monday.

The warning from an organization used to tackling Ebola in Central Africa comes after Guinea's president appealed for calm as the number of deaths linked to an outbreak on the border with Liberia and Sierra Leone hit 80.

The outbreak of one of the world's most lethal infectious diseases has spooked a number of governments with weak health systems, prompting Senegal to close its border with Guinea and other neighbors to restrict travel and cross-border exchanges. [/quote]

And... that was just March.  People have been following this more lately because, yes, more Health Care workers including Americans were infected, but mostly because the outbreak is rapidly spiraling out of control in West Africa.  [/quote]

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