--- title: Ebola Outbreak: 2 in Guinea Test Positive for the Disease description: Two people tested positive for Ebola in Guinea on Thursday and have been taken to a treatment center canonical: https://time.com/4263806/two-people-test-positive-ebola-guinea/ author: Katie Reilly article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2016-03-18T00:28:48.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-02-22T16:01:04.802Z article:section: Health og:title: 2 Test Positive for Ebola in Guinea og:description: The deadly two-year epidemic had been declared over in West Africa this year og:url: https://time.com/4263806/two-people-test-positive-ebola-guinea/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: TIME og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: 2 Test Positive for Ebola in Guinea twitter:description: The deadly two-year epidemic had been declared over in West Africa this year twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production --- # 2 Test Positive for Ebola in Guinea > Sponsored content. 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Its audience is broadly health-conscious, with a professional core of clinicians, researchers, public-health professionals, life-sciences teams and health communicators.  by [Katie Reilly](https://time.com/author/katie-reilly/)  ## Katie Reilly Mar 18, 2016 12:28 AM UTC  by [Katie Reilly](https://time.com/author/katie-reilly/)  ## Katie Reilly Mar 18, 2016 12:28 AM UTC Two people [tested positive for Ebola in Guinea](http://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-ebola-guinea-idUSKCN0WJ2UQ) on Thursday and have been taken to a treatment center, according to the nation’s government. The news comes after the deadly [two-year outbreak in West Africa](http://time.com/4188271/ebola-sierra-leone-second-case-victim/) had been [officially declared over](http://time.com/4179412/ebola-outbreak-over/). The two people infected with the virus are from the village of Korokpara, where three members of one family died in recent weeks from diarrhea and vomiting, [Reuters reported](http://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-ebola-guinea-idUSKCN0WJ2UQ), citing a government agency spokesman. The global Ebola epidemic—which has killed more than 11,300 people since 2013—is thought to have started in Guinea, a country in West Africa that neighbors Sierra Leone, whose outbreak the World Health Organization (WHO) declared over on Thursday. 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