Freetown (INA) – Sierra Leone has confirmed that it has recorded its first confirmed case of Ebola fever in the capital, Freetown, which was spared from the disease that also infected two Americans, one of whom is a doctor working to combat the epidemic in Liberia. The World Health Organization said Liberia had become the epicenter of an epidemic of hemorrhagic fever caused largely by the Ebola virus, which has been raging since March in West Africa and is continuing its advance — starting in Guinea, then Sierra Leone, Liberia and now Nigeria — despite a massive international mobilization. And the spokesman for the Ministry of Health in Sierra Leone, Sidi Yahya Tunis, announced on Sunday that Sudatu Koroma, 32, who worked in a hairdressing shop, died on Saturday of contracting the disease. He added that she was admitted to the hospital on Wednesday in the western suburb of Freetown, but her parents took her away by force, prompting the authorities to issue a search warrant for her on radio and television. He added that this matter convinced her to return to the hospital, but she died on the way. Tunisia added that samples of the blood of the mother and father were taken and are being analyzed, explaining that the house in which she lived in East Freetown and all its residents were placed in quarantine for 21 days, the maximum period for incubation of the disease. On Friday, Nigeria announced that a Liberian had died of Ebola in Lagos, Africa's largest city with a population of 20 million. It suffers from its outdated health facilities and weak governmental medical system. (I finish)
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