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    NEWS Ebola crisis: Struggling to change behaviour in Sierra Leone

    For weeks it has been the same here in Sierra Leone's capital, Freetown. Every day the Ebola burial teams - now well organised and promptly dispatched - collect about 60 bodies from around the city and its crowded suburbs. Some days it is 50, sometimes as many as 80. About 20% of those bodies...
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    NEWS Only eleven Ebola patients in British hospital in Sierra Leone

    Britain’s flagship facility in Sierra Leone has treated just 28 patients so far, despite £230million investment to fight disease. The Department for International Development has put £230million towards helping Sierra Leone fight Ebola, but only 28 people have been treated in the new facility...
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