Ebola outbreak: Guinea searches for missing health team. HT: Crof.
Via BBC News: Ebola outbreak: Guinea searches for missing health team.
Guinea has sent a team to find missing health officials who were attacked two days ago while visiting a village to raise awareness about Ebola.
Unconfirmed reports suggest they may have been kidnapped or even killed.
The officials had fled Wamey village in Nzerekore region after their group was pelted with stones.
The Ebola outbreak has now killed at least 2,622 people in Guinea, as well as Liberia and Sierra Leone, the World Health Organization says.
It is the world's worst outbreak of the deadly disease, with officials warning that more than 20,000 people could ultimately be infected.
A three-day lockdown is starting in Sierra Leone at 00.00 GMT on Friday in a bid to stop the disease spreading.
Last month, riots erupted in the area of Guinea where the health workers went missing - near where the outbreak was first recorded - following rumours that medics were contaminating people when they started spraying a market to disinfect it.
The missing people are thought to include journalists as well as local officials.
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