Guinea says has contained Ebola outbreak, death toll rises

By Saliou Samb CONAKRY (Reuters) – Guinea said on Wednesday it had stopped an outbreak of deadly Ebola fever from spreading beyond the country’s remote southeast, although the number of deaths from suspected infections rose to at least 63. U.N. agencies and medical charities such as Doctors Without Borders (MSF) have scrambled to help Guinea – one of the world’s poorest countries – to cope with the virus, amid fears it might spill across borders into neighboring West African nations. Liberia, which shares a border with southeastern Guinea, reported five deaths this week from suspected infections in people who had come across the frontier to seek treatment. Sierra Leone has also uncovered two deaths in the border town of Boidu suspected to be linked to Ebola, one of the most lethal infectious diseases known to man.