Meliandou is a village in Guéckédou Prefecture , in the Nzérékoré Region of southern Guinea . Medical researchers believe that the village was the location of the first known case of Ebola virus disease in the epidemic in West Africa . The patient zero of Ebola was a two-year-old boy who died in 2013. The boy's pregnant mother, sister, and grandmother also became ill with symptoms consistent with Ebola infection and died. People infected by those victims later spread the disease to other villages.
4-497: Prior to the Ebola outbreak, the villagers sold their farm produce to the nearby town of Guéckédou . As of October 2014, they found themselves unable to sell their products anymore. 8°37′21″N 10°03′51″W / 8.6226°N 10.0642°W / 8.6226; -10.0642 This Guinea location article is a stub . You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it . Gu%C3%A9ck%C3%A9dou Guéckédou or Guékédou
8-639: Is a town in southern Guinea near the Sierra Leone and Liberian borders. It had a population of 79,140 (as of the 1996 census) but has grown in the 21st century due to refugees fleeing the Second Liberian Civil War and the Sierra Leone Civil War . The city is renowned for its large weekly market, which attracts traders from across Southern Guinea, Sierra Leone, Liberia and Côte d'Ivoire . On February 12, 2007,
12-655: The flames of fear ... A main focus of the interventions involves deploying volunteers to communities to raise awareness on how to prevent the spread of the disease and, in the process, address the fear and stigma gripping many communities." The World Health Organization estimated cumulative totals of 227 cases and 173 deaths occurred in Guéckédou as of June 22, 2014. Eleven patients were in Ebola Virus Disease (EVD) Treatment Centres in Guéckédou as of that date, and 527 contacts were being followed up on as part of
16-526: The town's police station was ransacked amidst the resumption of protests and strikes against President Lansana Conté . In 2014, volunteers organized by Guéckédou's Red Cross worked in sanitation, disinfection, and monitoring efforts to help contain the 2014 West Africa Ebola outbreak . Some reported they were "encountering resistance in some villages such as Bafassa , Wassaya and Tolebengo in Guéckédou Prefecture , where rumours help fuel
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