Ebola Outbreak Reaches Guinea Capital

Officials in Guinea said Friday that they’ve identified four cases of Ebola in Conakry, the west African country’s capital, the first cases in the city of three million since the outbreak began in the country’s southern region last week.

At least 63 people have died of Ebola since the beginning of the outbreak, the Associated Press reports. The virus, which causes hemorrhagic fever, has a fatality rate of up to 90 percent. Officials say the four people in Conakry known to have contracted the virus were in contact with the body of an earlier victim. Anyone who took part in the burials of victims is being quarantined, the AP reports.

Liberian authorities are looking into suspected cases of Ebola in their own country, which shares a border with Guinea.

[AP]