Ebola Virus Outbreak

The Ebola virus has been identified as the cause of an outbreak of haemorrhagic fever now believed to have killed nearly 60 people in southern Guinea, government officials say.

Scores of cases have been recorded since the outbreak began last December.

{Mariko Oi reports for BBC Africa}

Click here to read more about this deadly  virus and how it has spread from the Forest Region in the South of the country to other towns, including Conakry.