Guinea: Authorities launch probe after dozens of fishermen suffer skin problems

More than 50 fishermen in the West African state of Guinea have been hospitalised with a unknown skin ailment, the government’s spokesman said on Friday, a day after the authorities launched a probe into the incident.

Photos circling on social networks show fishermen with faces, mouths and limbs covered in pimples and lesions.

“Faced with this strange phenomenon, the government has set up an inter-ministerial crisis management committee…