Ebola Virus Kills 5 In First Outbreak in Sierra Leone

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Ebola Virus Kills 5 In First Outbreak in Sierra Leone
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Five people have died in the first cases of Ebola virus in Sierra Leone, the World Health Organization said (http://www.afro.who.int/fr/groupes-organiques-et-programmes/ddc/alerte-et-action-en-cas-depidemie-et-de-pandemie/outbreak-news/4143-ebola-virus-disease-west-africa-26-may-2014.html) on Monday

Ebola, a deadly hemorrhagic fever virus with a fatality rate of up to 90 percent, has already killed more than 100 people in its recent West Africa outbreak. Cases have been reported in Guinea (http://mashable.com/2014/03/30/ebola-senegal-border-guinea/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_medium=feed&utm_source=rss), Liberia (http://mashable.com/2014/03/31/ebola-outbreak-liberia/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_medium=feed&utm_source=rss), and Mali (http://mashable.com/2014/04/04/84-people-dead-ebola-mali/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_medium=feed&utm_source=rss)

See also: Why There Isn't a Vaccine for Ebola (http://mashable.com/2014/04/15/ebola-treatment/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_medium=feed&utm_source=rss)


The WHO said that it had received "preliminary information" about one case confirmed in a laboratory in Kenema, Sierra Leone, and four other "community deaths." These were reported from Koidu, near the border with Guéckédou, Guinea, a disease hotspot. Read more... (http://mashable.com/2014/05/26/ebola-kills-5-sierra-leone/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_medium=feed&utm_source=rss)

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