The death toll fro the worst outbreak of the disease hit 932 in -est / frica' 0he outbreak of the deadl# haeorrhagic fe er has o erwheled rudientar# healthcare s#stes and propted the deplo#ent of troops to 1uarantine the worst) hit areas in the reote border region of 2uinea, Liberia and Sierra Leone.
The death toll fro the worst outbreak of the disease hit 932 in -est / frica' 0he outbreak of the deadl# haeorrhagic fe er has o erwheled rudientar# healthcare s#stes and propted the deplo#ent of troops to 1uarantine the worst) hit areas in the reote border region of 2uinea, Liberia and Sierra Leone.
The death toll fro the worst outbreak of the disease hit 932 in -est / frica' 0he outbreak of the deadl# haeorrhagic fe er has o erwheled rudientar# healthcare s#stes and propted the deplo#ent of troops to 1uarantine the worst) hit areas in the reote border region of 2uinea, Liberia and Sierra Leone.
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(olunteers lower a corpse, which is prepared with safe burial practices to ensure it does not pose a health risk to others and stop the chain of person)to)person transission of Ebola, into a gra*e in More''' BY DERICK SNYDER-MONROVIA Wed Aug 6, 2014 (+euters) ) Liberia shut a a,or hospital in the capital Monro*ia on -ednesda# after a Spanish priest and si. other staff contracted Ebola, as the death toll fro the worst outbreak of the disease hit 932 in -est /frica' 0he outbreak of the deadl# haeorrhagic fe*er has o*erwheled rudientar# healthcare s#stes and propted the deplo#ent of troops to 1uarantine the worst) hit areas in the reote border region of 2uinea, Liberia and Sierra Leone' 0he -orld 3ealth 4rgani5ation (-34) reported &6 new deaths in the three da#s to /ug' &, and its e.perts began an eergenc# eeting in 2ene*a on -ednesda# to discuss whether the outbreak constitutes a 78ublic 3ealth Eergenc# of 9nternational :oncern7 and to discuss new easures to contain the outbreak' 9nternational alar at the spread of the disease increased when a ;'S' citi5en died in <igeria late last onth after fl#ing there fro Liberia' 0he health inister said on -ednesda# that a <igerian nurse who had treated the deceased 8atrick Saw#er had herself died of Ebola, and fi*e other people were being treated in an isolation ward in Lagos, /frica=s largest cit#' 9n Saudi /rabia, a an suspected of contracting Ebola during a recent business trip to Sierra Leone also died earl# on -ednesda# in "eddah, the 3ealth Ministr# said' Saudi /rabia has alread# suspended pilgriage *isas fro -est /frican countries, which could pre*ent those hoping to *isit Mecca for the 3a, in earl# 4ctober' Liberia, where the death toll is rising fastest, is struggling to cope' Man# residents are panicking, in soe cases casting out the bodies of fail# ebers onto the streets of Monro*ia to a*oid 1uarantine easures' >eneath hea*# rain, abulance sirens wailed through the otherwise 1uiet streets of Monro*ia on -ednesda# as residents heeded a go*ernent re1uest to sta# at hoe for three da#s of fasting and pra#ers' 7E*er#one is afraid of Ebola' ?ou cannot tell who has Ebola or not' Ebola is not like a cut ark that #ou can see and run,7 said Sarah -eh#ee as she stocked up on food at the local arket in 8a#nes*ille, an eastern suburb of Monro*ia' St' "oseph=s :atholic hospital was shut down after the :aeroonian hospital director died fro Ebola, authorities said' Si. staff subse1uentl# tested positi*e for the disease, including two nuns and @6)#ear old Spanish priest Miguel 8a,ares, who is due to be repatriated b# a special edical aircraft on -ednesda#' 0+448S AE8L4?EA 9< 48E+/094< 7-390E S39ELA7 Spain=s health inistr# denied that one of the nuns ) born in E1uatorial 2uinea but holding Spanish nationalit# ) had tested positi*e for Ebola' 0he other nun is :ongolese' 7-e hope the# can e*acuate us' 9t would be ar*ellous, because we know that, if the# take us to Spain, at least we will be in good hands,7 8a,ares told :<< in Spanish this week' 3ealthcare workers are in the front line of fighting the *irus, and two ;'S' health workers fro :hristian edical charit# Saaritan=s 8urse caught the *irus in Monro*ia and are now recei*ing treatent in an /tlanta hospital' 0he two saw their conditions ipro*e b# *ar#ing degrees in Liberia after the# recei*ed an e.periental drug, a representati*e for the charit# said' 0hree of the world=s leading Ebola specialists urged the -34 to offer people in -est /frica the chance to take e.periental drugs, too, but the agenc# said it 7would not recoend an# drug that has not gone through the noral process of licensing and clinical trials7' 3ighl# contagious, Ebola kills ore than half of the people who contract it' (ictis suffer fro fe*er, *oiting, diarrhoea and internal and e.ternal bleeding' Man# regular hospitals and clinics ha*e been forced to close across Liberia, often because health workers are too afraid of contracting the *irus thesel*es or because of abuse b# locals who think the disease is a go*ernent conspirac#' 9n an effort to control the disease=s spread, Liberia has deplo#ed the ar# to ipleent controls and isolate se*erel# affected counities, an operation codenaed 7-hite Shield7' 0he inforation inistr# said on -ednesda# that soldiers were being deplo#ed to the isolated, rural counties of Lofa, >ong, :ape Mount and >oi to set up checkpoints and ipleent tracing easures on residents suspected of coing into contact with *ictis' <eighbouring Sierra Leone said it has ipleented new restrictions at the airport and that it was asking passengers to fill in fors and take a teperature test' Soe a,or airlines, such as >ritish /irwa#s and Eirates, ha*e halted flights to affected countries, while an# e.patriates were getting out, go*ernent officials said' 7-e=*e seen international workers lea*ing the countr# in nubers,7 Liberia=s Finance Minister /ara !onneh told +euters' 2reece ad*ised its citi5ens on -ednesda# against non)essential tra*el to 2uinea, Liberia, Sierra Leone and <igeria and said it would take e.tra easures at its entr# ports' (/dditional reporting b# :lair MacAougall in Monro*ia, Ea Farge and Aaniel Fl#nn in Aakar, 0i :ocks in Lagos, 8aul Aa# in Madrid and 0o Miles in 2ene*aB -riting b# Ea Farge and Aaniel Fl#nn, editing b# 8eter Millership and -ill -ateran) 8osted b# 0ha*a