The Ministry of Health, Guinea has reported two cases of Yellow fever on 20 August and 12 September 2008. The cases have been laboratory confirmed by the Institut Pasteur, Dakar. The first case was reported in a 24 year old male living in the sub-prefecture of Bounouma, Prefecture of N'zérékoré: the man reported first seeing symptoms on 26 July and blood samples were taken on 4 and 5 August. The second case was reported in the third week of August in the Urbain Commune of N'zérékoré in another 24 year old male. Both cases had no history of yellow fever vaccinations. A yellow fever outbreak investigation team composed of experts from the MoH and WHO visited 10 sub-prefectures and the Urbain Commune of N'zérékoré and two others sub-prefectures in the Prefecture of Lola from the 5th to the 14th of September.

A cholera outbreak has killed at least 143 people in Guinea so far this year but the death rate has slowed since June, a U.N. report showed on Sunday.

A cholera epidemic has killed 133 people in southeastern Guinea this month, a health ministry official in the west African country said.

A meningitis epidemic in Eastern Guinea has hit at least 168 people and killed 17 since the beginning of April, the Swiss branch of Medecins sans Frontieres (MSF) said on Sunday.

As of 19 December, the Ministry of Health, Guinea has reported a total of 114 suspected cases of yellow fever with 26 deaths, since the beginning of the year. Twenty-three of these cases have been laboratory confirmed. Boké is the most affected region