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The latest news going round is that security forces in Liberia's capital have been deployed to enforce a quarantine in a large slum area in Monrovia in order to contain the spread of Ebola.
The isolation of West Point and a countrywide
night-time curfew are the latest anti-Ebola measures to be ordered by the
president.
Since the beginning of the year, more than 1,200
people have died of the virus in four West African countries.
In Nigeria, a top Lagos doctor has just died of the
virus.
We have been unable to control the spread due to
continued denials... disregard for the advice of health workers and disrespect
for the warnings by the government”
Ellen Johnson Sirleaf Liberian president
That brings the number of people who have died of
Ebola in Nigeria to five, the health ministry said.
Latest news reveal that consultant Stella Ameyo
Adadevo was the first medical personnel to order that a sick patient from
Liberia be tested for Ebola when he was admitted in July.
Honestly, she managed the situation like a thorough
professional that she was. She had helped Nigeria to contain the epidemic in
her own way," Akin Osibogun, the chief medical director at Lagos
University Teaching Hospital, told Nigeria's Premium Times newspaper.
Officials says five people have recovered from the
virus in Nigeria and have been discharged from hospital in Lagos. Two are still
being treated.
Since the outbreak spread to Nigeria in July, several
airlines have stopped flights to the region.
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