Ebola Quarantine in Sierra Leone Capital

Sierra Leone has quarantined a neighborhood in the capital, Freetown, following the emergence of several new cases of Ebola. The coastal district of Aberdeen, home to slums and upscale hotels, was shut down Friday. The quarantine is a setback for the West African country that had the most cases of Ebola in the recent outbreak of the disease in Africa, which killed almost 9,000 people. Cases in the three most affected countries — Guinea, Liberia and Sierra Leone — have risen in the...

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