A WHO worker checks the temperature of one of the daughters of Seydouba Soumah(40). Soumah's two wives died of Ebola recently and four of his sons are also infected and have been isolated in a treatment center. The rest of the family is being monitored in the village of Tana. In this region the WHO has decided to allow people who have been in contact with Ebola patients freedom of movement and tracks people's health with regular temperature checks.
Forecariah prefecture is the last known place on earth with Ebola. Though the spead of infections has been reduced to a very small area it is proving difficult to completely eradicate the disease.
Around over 2,500 people died from ebola from the outbreak in Guinea in December 2013 until October 2015 and Guinea is also the last country with known cases of the virus. In total, by October 2015, around 11,300 people had died across West Africa with one fatality outside the region. /Felix Features