Guinea confirms fever is Ebola, has killed up to 59 | Reuters First line is " Guinea has received confirmation that a mysterious disease that has killed up to 59 people in the West African country" Near the end says: "Though no epidemics of the disease have been recorded among humans in West Africa, a variety of Ebola infected a colony of chimpanzees in Ivory Coast's Tai National Park, near the country's border with Liberia, in 1994."