Borders closing over Ebola fears

Friday, August 22, 2014
By Paul Martin

Disease’s infectious nature has health officials around world on high alert

By Jacque Wilson
CNN.com
Aug 22, 2014

The West African country of Senegal has closed its borders with Guinea over fears that the Ebola outbreak could spread, according to the Senegalese Interior Ministry. The closure includes any aircraft and ships traveling to Senegal from Guinea, Sierra Leone or Liberia.

Senegal is located to the northwest of Guinea, which as of August 20 had 579 suspected Ebola cases, according to the World Health Organization.

Sierra Leone and Liberia border Guinea to the southwest. Those three nations have been the epicenter of the Ebola outbreak.

So far, 2,473 suspected cases have been reported to WHO from those three countries and Nigeria. More than half of those patients have died. It’s the largest Ebola outbreak on record.

And still, WHO says, these numbers don’t tell the whole picture.

“The magnitude of the Ebola outbreak, especially in Liberia and Sierra Leone, has been underestimated for a number of reasons,” the organization said in a statement Friday. “Many families hide infected loved ones in their homes.

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