Tanzania on high alert over Ebola from DRC, Guinea

Ebola.

People wash their hands next to an Ebola information and sanitation station in Monrovia, Liberia, on September 30, 2014. PHOTO | AFP

Tanzania is among six African countries on high alert following an outbreak of Ebola in Guinea on February 14 and the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) a week earlier.

The confirmed cases this time have been reported from the southeast of Guinea about 800km by road from the capital, Conakry, but only about 100km from various border points with Liberia and Côte d’Ivoire.