Thursday 16 October 2014

Ebola spreads to last healthy district in Sierra Leone

Health workers spray themselves with chlorine disinfectants after removing the body a woman who died of Ebola virus in the Aberdeen district of Freetown FREETOWN (Reuters) - Ebola has killed at least two people in the last remaining district in Sierra Leone that had been unaffected by the virus, a government health officer said on Thursday. Sierra Leone is one of three West African nations at the epicenter of the worst outbreak on record, which has killed close to 4,500 people since first appearing in the Guinean forest last December. As Ebola spread across the rest of Sierra Leone, locals in the far northern Koinadugu district had tried to block movement in and out of the area to stop anyone bringing in the hemorrhagic fever. ...




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