Health workers will fan out in Guinea's capital of Conakry to try to identify people who may have been exposed to the deadly Ebola virus, the World Health Organisation (WHO) said on Thursday. Tracing people in a city of around 2 million who may have had physical contact with infected people is harder than in the epicentre of the outbreak, Guinea Forestiere some 900 km from the capital, the United Nations agency says. Seventy people have begun intensive training on contact tracing in Conakry, the WHO said in a statement. "They will go into the communities to follow up on specific persons who had close contacts with patients with a confirmed Ebola infection." Infection control measures in Donka national hospital and health facilities are also being stepped up to halt spread of the disease, which can kill up to 9 out of 10 patients, it said.
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