CONAKRY (Reuters) - Health officials fighting an outbreak of Ebola in Guinea on Sunday dispatched specialized medical equipment, imposed restrictions on funerals and sought 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 Medecins Sans Frontieres (MSF) 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.
At least five of the dead in Guinea have been medical officials, including the head of the regional hospital in Macenta, at the heart of the crisis, some 800 km (500 miles) from Guinea's capital Conakry.
Guinea dispatches equipment to contain outbreak of Ebola | Reuters
We may have an effective and resilient plague with this one. Natural forces will find a means to balance a population growing unchecked like a cancer. Some isolated regions survived the pandemic of 1918 as long as they maintained quarantine, when they thought it was over and let down their guard it hit them too. Those who fail to learn from the mistakes of history are doomed to repeat them.

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