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Chinese traditional medicines over the years had been used to heal many sicknesses across the world with particular reference to Africa and Asia from the 1960’s to date.
China’s medical cooperation in Africa started in Algeria in 1963 as a call from the Algerian government for international medical assistance and extended to other countries including Sierra Leone which benefited from the first Chinese Medical Team (CMT) in March 1973 but were withdrawn in 1993 as a result of the war and re-dispatched in December 2002.
Over the years, these CMT have been curing various sicknesses without any form of international recognition until late 2015 when the first 85 year old Chinese female scientist, Professor Tu You you, was awarded in Sweden ‘the 2015 Noble Prize in Medicine’ for her pi

At least five people have died since 29 February 2016 due to a new flare up of Ebola virus disease (EVD) in Guinea [1]. The first two confirmed cases of the virus were detected in the village of Korokpara and involved a mother and her five-year-old son. These are the first cases of Ebola in Guinea since the World Health Organization (WHO) declared the country free of the disease in December 2015. This declaration came two years after an outbreak that began in 2013 killed approximately 2,500 people in Guinea and over 11,000 in West Africa [2]. The WHO had warned that Guinea, as well as the neighboring countries of Liberia and Sierra Leone, are at risk for ongoing smaller outbreaks due to persistence of the virus in some previously infected individuals [3]. Guinea’s 90-day heightened surveillance period was set to end in late March [4].