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NEWS Sierra Leone to use scare-tactics campaign in Freetown to curb Ebola
The president of Sierra Leone will launch a massive campaign on Wednesday to curb the spread of Ebola in the western areas of the capital Freetown, which will aim to scare people into changing their behaviour. The “western area surge” will use the sort of tactics that worked in the UK to...- whoosh
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NEWS Ebola shuts down signs of normal life in Sierra Leone
So, the number of people who have known to have died of Ebola in the current outbreak in west Africa has passed 5,000. But what does that mean for the affected communities? I briefly visited Sierra Leone, one of the three most affected countries along with Liberia and Guinea, this week. One...- whoosh
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VIDEO Ebola Reston = Ebola undercover? - A SCENARIO! Reston Virginia
:eek: :shocked: Published on 27 Jul 2014 First discovered in Reston (Virginia), this species of the genus Ebola Virus has not shown pathogenic to humans till now, but is the only known airborne species of that genus. The Reston Virus was first noticed in 1989 in a quarantine facility, where...- whoosh
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