In Guinea, the Ebola virus has broken out. Since in the meantime, cases have been confirmed in the capital, the risk of spreading is given to neighboring countries, even in Canada there is a West Africa-traveler in quarantine because he showed the symptoms after return.
Here is a contribution of the SRF:
For all who are traveling just to the West Route and West Africa, this means that the borders can be closed at any time to prevent a further spread.
2009 Angola had, for example, respond to an outbreak in DR Congo in this way (https://de.globalvoicesonline.org/2009/01/15/angola-mit-ebola-um-die-ecke-sind-die-grenzen-geschlossen/).
Who is just getting started or who plan a Trans-Africa soon, should probably watch at a safe distance the development of that outbreak. Or avoid that area with driving to Mauritania, Mali, Burkina Faso, Benin and Nigeria bypassing the region.
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| 1976-2008 Ebola Outbreaks: Wikipedia http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ebolavirus |
So far, it never came to a broader distribution of this viral disease, against which there is no vaccine.
The virus is transmitted through blood and body fluids, so we overlanders belong probably not to the classical risk group.
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