This archive report was first published on 5 September 2019.
Published on September 5, 2019, a study of Ebola survivors in Guinea revealed alarming statistics about their health after recovery.
Researchers surveyed over 1,100 survivors of the 2014 West African outbreak and found that 59 died within a year of leaving Ebola treatment units, a mortality risk five times that of the general Guinean population.
The cause of death for 62% of those who died within a year was attributed to kidney failure, highlighting the urgent need for further investigation into the role of renal failure in late deaths after recovering from Ebola.
The study's findings have significant implications for the current outbreak in the Democratic Republic of Congo, where the death rate among those infected is higher.
