The now-197-case Ebola outbreak is caused by a novel strain, researchers say.
Doctors without Borders (Medecins Sans Fronteires, or MSF) said it resumed treating patients with Ebola infections at a center in the Guinea city of Macenta yesterday, following protests last week by some of the local people.
Five more suspected cases have been detected in Guinea and Liberia.
Each country has confirmed 6 new cases, bringing the outbreak total to 143.
The new Ebola cases push the outbreak total to 127 cases, including 83 fatal ones.
Two more patients have died in Guinea's Ebola outbreak, pushing the number of fatal cases to 80.
Lab tests have confirmed Ebola in two patients from a district that borders Guinea.
The number of suspected and confirmed cases in the nation climbed from 86 to 103.
The WHO today said Guinea has 86 suspected Ebola cases—13 of them lab-confirmed—and 59 deaths.
A Saudi man who contracted Middle East respiratory syndrome coronavirus (MERS-CoV) in November after tending sick camels had a virus nearly identical to that found in one of his camels, suggesting he contracted the disease from them, according to a letter yesterday in Emerging Infectious Diseases.
