30/07/2014
Liberia takes steps to contain west African Ebola outbreak
The latest efforts come as senior western officials held meetings to assess the risk of ebola reaching their shores A Liberian man holding bush meat, one of the main causes of ebola's spread, for sale in Liberia. Photograph: Ahmed Jallanzo/EPA Liberia shut down schools and many markets, placed all non-essential public servants on leave and quarantined several communities in the most stringent bid yet to curb an Ebola epidemic that has raged for seven months across three west African nations. A Liberian civil servant who last week died after flying to Nigeria, the continent's most populous nation, brought the total number of countries hit by the deadly and contagious pathogen to four. The...
