Sierra Leone to Search Freetown Houses for Ebola Patients

Authorities in Sierra Leone plan to conduct house-to-house searches around the capital, Freetown, to look for hidden Ebola patients. Freetown has become a center of the West African Ebola outbreak, reporting more than 130 new confirmed cases in the first week of December, one-third of the country's total. In a statement, Sierra Leone's President Ernest Bai Koroma told residents of Freetown "don't hide the sick" when health workers begin visiting houses on...

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