REALLY ? UPDATE: Liberia Finds Missing Ebola Patients After Health Centre Was Attacked {19/08/2014} Seventeen suspected Ebola patients who went missing in Liberia after a health centre in the capital was attacked have been found, a minister has said. They were traced and finally they turned themselves in at a treatment centre, Lewis Brown said. The government had previously denied they were missing. New UN figures show that 1,229 people have now died since the beginning of this year in the outbreak that has also hit Sierra Leone, Guinea and Nigeria. The Liberian information minister said the missing patients were now at the newly expanded treatment unit opened over the weekend at the John F Kennedy Memorial Medical Center in the capital, Monrovia. Mr Brown also said the health of three Liberian doctors infected with Ebola had improved after they receiving the experimental drug Zmapp. Two US missionaries, who were flown home for treatment from Liberia, are reportedly recovering from the virus after taking doses of the same medicine. The drug was also given to a 75-year-old Spanish priest who contracted Ebola in Liberia, but he died in Spain last week. In Nigeria, which has had four fatal Ebola cases, health officials say five people have now recovered from the virus and been discharged from hospital in Lagos. Another three are still being treated. -BBC
Posted on: Tue, 19 Aug 2014 18:08:05 +0000
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