Posted on 03/25/2014 10:31:40 AM PDT by Pan_Yan
Conakry (AFP) - West Africa was on high alert Tuesday after Sierra Leone warned an Ebola outbreak ravaging Guinea may have crossed its borders and five deaths in Liberia were being tested for the killer virus.
More than 60 people have died of haemorrhagic fever in Guinea since the start of February, with the Ebola virus identified as the cause in 13 of 45 samples tested by scientists.
"We still do not have any confirmed cases of Ebola in the country. What we do have are suspected cases which our health teams are investigating," Sierra Leone's chief medical officer Brima Kargbo told reporters.
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The Ebola disease has never before been detected among people in west Africa.
Liberia, which borders Guinea to the south, reported on Monday that four women and a boy had died of suspected Ebola.
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wonder if sharpton and jessie jackson will start claiming that this is another attempt of the White man trying to kill off their brothers and sistahs.
“wonder if sharpton and jessie jackson will start claiming that this is another attempt of the White man trying to kill off their brothers and sistahs.”
Not enough people here care about Africa, therefore it won’t make em any money, therefore they won’t say anything.
Holy Moly, this sure makes me uneasy, even more
than Jihad. Just what the world needs.
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