At least 63 people have now died from the Ebola outbreak in Guinea although the authorities believe they have managed to isolate the problem to the country’s remote south east.<br /><br />In the meantime the consumption and selling of bats – a local delicacy In Guinea – has been banned after scientists identified the animal as being one of the main agents for the spreading of the deadly disease.<br /><br />Doctors such as Mamadou Saliou Bah are now urging prevention in a two pronged attack against the virus.<br /><br />“Guineans should get into prevention. This prevention means in the first instance not to consume everything that is a rodent and can carry disease. By rodents I mean rats, bats, and raw monkey meat, which unfortunately we still find being eaten in forest areas.”<br /><br />The disease has already spread to Sierra Leone and Liberia but in Ivory Coast where the disease has not yet appeared, the authorities are banning bush meat as their own a preventative measure. <br /><br />The Ebola virus can reside in monkeys, rodents and bats and be passed on to the humans.<br /><br />Ebola causes fever, vomiting and external and internal bleeding and has an over 70 percent fatality rate. There is no known cure.
