UK employees leave Sierra Leone over Ebola threat
BBC.com
3 June 2014
A number of “non-essential” staff at a British firm in Sierra Leone have left the country following an outbreak of the deadly Ebola virus.
London Mining has restricted some travel to the area but said production at its Marampa mine was unaffected.
It said it was working with local and international agencies to monitor the situation.
The incurable and highly contagious disease was reported in the west African country last week.
There are already about 50 suspected cases in Sierra Leone and five people have died. There have been more than 100 deaths in neighbouring Guinea where the outbreak started, with cases also reported in Liberia earlier this year.
Iron ore company London Mining said essential staff continued to travel in and out of the country and it was carefully monitoring the health of all of its employees.
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