Five Dead In First Sierra Leone Ebola Outbreak – 26 May 2014

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 Five people died in Sierra Leone’s first confirmed outbreak of Ebola virus, according to the World Health Organization.The death toll from the epidemic in West Africa reaches 190,despite regional officials’ claims that it has been brought under control.

“I can categorically confirm that the Ebola sickness has materialized,” health ministry official Amara Jambai said on Monday.

“Preliminary information received from the field indicates that one laboratory-confirmed case and five community deaths have been reported from Koindu chiefdom,” the World Health Organization (WHO) also said in a statement on its website.
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