Illegal Guinean Miners Cause Ebola Scare In Northern Ghana

As Ebola continues to speard across West Africa, a community, Pinga, in Ghana has called on the Ghanaian government  to check the flow of their Guinean miner neighbours into the community for their illegal mining activity. The members of the community fear the miners who are returning from their home country, Guinea, might bring the dreaded EDV  with them. Reports Sahara Reporters

Residents of the small Ghanaian town of Pinga in the Bole district of Ghana’s Northern region have raised concerns over Ebola transmission from illegal Guinean miners in their town.

Reports indicate that many Guineans, who have previously engaged in illegal gold prospecting in northern Ghana, have been returning to Ghana after selling their bounty in Guinea and elsewhere, causing great concern for residents of the town.

How I Survived Ebola - Survivor Speaks... (PICTURED)

Note: This interview with Saa Sabas, an Ebola survivor who now volunteers for the Red Cross Society of Guinea, was conducted for CNN by Moustapha Diallo from the International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies.

(CNN) — The Ebola outbreak in West Africa has hit “unprecedented” proportions, according to relief workers on the ground, with the WHO reporting 844 cases including 518 deaths since the epidemic began in March.

There is no cure or vaccine to treat Ebola, but the aid agency MSF has shown it doesn’t have to be a death sentence if treated early. Ebola typically kills 90% of patients but the death rate in this outbreak has dropped to roughly 60%.
One man who survived the disease describes how the virus took hold: