Freetown – Sierra Leone, one of three neighbouring west African countries facing an Ebola epidemic, has stepped up measures to fight the highly contagious and deadly disease, the health minister has said.
Miatta Kargbo said on Thursday that the number of registered cases of haemorrhagic fever had risen to 246. Of these, 103 were confirmed to be Ebola and 26 had died.
Kargbo’s figures were higher than those released on Wednesday by the World Health Organisation (WHO), which reported 92 cases of Ebola and 49 deaths.
The first ever Ebola outbreak to emerge in west Africa began early this year in southeast Guinea’s forests and swiftly struck Liberia and Sierra Leone. A current spike in new cases in Guinea has caused concern.
Across the three countries, 337 people have died from Ebola, according to the WHO data released on Wednesday…
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