Guinea Declares Ebola Epidemic, Neighboring Countries Act

Guinea Declares Ebola Epidemic, Neighboring Countries Act
Guinea's minister of Health and Public Hygiene Remy Lamah delivers the weekly press conference of the interdepartmental committee to fight the Ebola haemorrhagic fever in Conakry on June 28, 2014. Cellou Binani/AFP via Getty Images
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DAKAR, Senegal—Guinea has officially declared it has an Ebola epidemic after at least three people have died and four others have been infected in the West African nation.

Neighboring Sierra Leone and Liberia have put their citizens on high alert as the three West African nations battled the world’s deadliest Ebola outbreak from 2014 to 2016, which began in Guinea and in which more than 11,300 people died.