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Sierra Leone: 130 Ebola cases found in lockdown
130 Ebola cases found in lockdownThe Belfast Telegraph
23 September 2014
Health teams that went door-to-door in Sierra Leone found 130 confirmed cases of Ebola during a nationwide shutdown to slow the spread of the disease, an official has said.
Authorities are considering repeating the unprecedented exercise.
About 70 more suspected cases are still being tested, said Deputy Minister for Political and Public Affairs Karamoh Kabba. In all, 92 bodies were found during the three-day campaign, during which teams handed out information about the disease to more than one million households.
The Ebola outbreak sweeping West Africa is believed to have sickened more than 5,800 people and killed more than 2,800, primarily Liberia, Sierra Leone and Guinea....
MORE at http://www.belfasttelegraph.co.uk/news/world-news/130-ebola-cases-found-in-lockdown-30610083.html
