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 A worker in a Personal Protection Equipment suit (PPE) uses a stick to move garbage inside the high-risk quarantined zone of the John Fitzgerald Kennedy hospital in the Liberian capital Monrovia on 5 September,2014. Picture: AFP.

Guinea shuts borders with sierra leone

Ebola: Sierra Leone lockdown won't help

By Reuters

Doctors without Borders have warned Sierra Leone’s planned lock down will simply not do the job.

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  • FILE: A doctor of the national public health institute controls the temperature of people at the airport, in Abidjan on 13 August 2014. Picture: AFP.

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  • FILE: The WHO ruled that it’s ethical to offer unproven treatment to people. Picture: AFP.

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  • FILE: The WHO says 1,013 people have died from the disease which is plaguing West African countries. Picture: AFP.

    Ebola: Death toll climbs over 1,000

    The WHO says 1,013 people have died from the disease which is plaguing West African countries.

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  • Members of Doctors Without Borders (MSF) wear protective gear at the isolation ward of the Donka Hospital in Conakry on 23 July, 2014. Picture: AFP.

    Guinea shuts borders with Sierra Leone

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    2922 days ago
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