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Bandits in Guinea Steal Suspected Ebola Blood

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Sat, 2014-11-22 03:19 — Kathy Gilbeaux
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news.yahoo.com - by Boubacar Diallo - November 21, 2014

It was a highway robbery but the bandits got more than they bargained for when they stopped a taxi in Guinea and made off with blood samples that are believed to be infected with the deadly Ebola virus.

Authorities publicly appealed on national radio Friday to the unidentified robbers to hand over the samples that were stolen from the taxi during its 265-kilometer (165-mile) trek on winding rural roads from the central Kankan prefecture to a test site in southern Gueckedou.

The samples, stored in tightly wrapped vials tucked into a cooler bag, were in the care of a Red Cross courier who was among nine passengers sharing a taxi when three bandits on a motorbike led the attack near the town of Kissidougou, a local Red Cross official said.

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http://news.yahoo.com/bandits-guinea-steal-suspected-ebola-blood-105816420.html

Sat, 2014-11-22 15:33 — Kathy Gilbeaux

reuters.com - November 21, 2014

Nov 21 (Reuters) - Robbers in Guinea hijacked a Red Cross vehicle this week and made off with a cooler containing blood samples from suspected Ebola patients, a senior Red Cross official said on Friday.

"No doubt they thought it was something else," Youssouf Traoré, head of the Red Cross delegation in Guinea, told Reuters. He gave no further details of the attack but said the robbers would probably dump the cooler once they found it did not contain gold or diamonds.

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http://www.reuters.com/article/2014/11/21/health-ebola-guinea-theft-idUSL6N0TB4FU20141121

Sat, 2014-11-22 15:34 — Kathy Gilbeaux

Click on the links below for additional information on this topic . . .

http://www.aljazeera.com/news/africa/2014/11/robbers-steal-ebola-blood-samples-guinea-2014112283852605362.html

http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/nov/21/bandits-guinea-steal-blood-samples-possibly-infected-with-ebola

Sat, 2014-11-22 16:07 — Kathy Gilbeaux

voanews.com - by Karim Camara - November 20, 2014

. . . measures have been taken by the Ebola coordinating committee to reinforce the security of their vehicles carrying blood samples.  He says now they have put in place strong security measures and this will be reinforced in the days to come.

Guinea's government has announced an intensive manhunt for the thieves and warned that anyone caught with the stolen cooler will face the full force of the law.  Gendarmes on motorbikes have begun patrolling the highway, looking for the robbers.

http://www.voanews.com/content/cooler-with-ebola-tainted-blood-stolen-in-guinea/2527980.html

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