Sierra Leone Affected Again By The Deadly Ebola Virus. Authorities
are concerned that the case could lead to an outbreak in the overcrowded
fishing community, which has poor sanitation and is regularly hit by outbreaks
of malaria and cholera.
This was announced by health
authorities on Tuesday dashing hopes of about 1.2 million people residing in densely-populated
Freetown.The
government’s National Ebola Response Centre (NERC) on Tuesday recorded three
cases which emerged in the east-end slum of Magazine Wharf. Health
officials said six people have been placed under observation since a new case of a casual laborer that tested positive in June 17.
Liberia which was badly affected was
declared Ebola free in May, but their hopes have been recently dashed since neighboring Sierra Leone and Guinea have reported 25 new cases.
The World
Health Organization (WHO) warned earlier this month that the retreat of the
virus “that was apparent throughout April and early May has stalled”.
According to
the WHO, as of June 21, there had been 27,443 confirmed, probable and suspected
cases of Ebola in Guinea, Liberia and Sierra Leone, of which 11,207 were fatal. Sierra Leone
has seen almost half of the total caseload, reporting more than 3,900 deaths.
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