Top Liberian Doctor Quarantines Self

Liberia's chief medical officer has put herself in quarantine as a precaution against Ebola after an assistant died from the disease, the government said Saturday. Dr. Bernice Dahn, who is also a deputy health minister, was the latest senior West African medical official to be directly affected by an outbreak of the virus, which has killed over 3,000 people across most of Guinea, Liberia and Sierra Leone. "She has placed herself under self observation due to the fact that her...

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