3 New Ebola Patients Found in Sierra Leone

VOICE OF AMERICAN by James Butty  Sept. 9, 2015
Three more people have tested positive for Ebola from the same village in Sierra Leone's northern Kambia district of the country where a 67-year-old woman died last week from the virus, Sierra Leone health officials said.

Chief medical officer Dr. Brima Kargbo told VOA Tuesday the three new patients came from among the 50 high-risk persons identified as close relatives of the deceased woman. 

Sierra Leone has had nearly 14,000 cases of Ebola and about 4,000 deaths since the outbreak began in 2014.  But Dr. Kargbo said the latest outbreak is containable because its origin is traceable....

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