PRO/AH/EDR> Ebola – Sierra Leone: susp. alert, RFI

Ebola — Worldwide/Unknown
An outbreak of hemorrhagic fever that has killed 29 people in Guinea may have spread across the border into neighboring Sierra Leone, according to a World Health Organisation (WHO) document and a senior Sierra Leone health official.
Guinean health officials have registered 49 [now 80] cases of infection in 3 southeastern towns and the capital Conakry since the outbreak was first reported on 9 Feb 2014.
While the exact type of the fever, which is characterized by bleeding, has yet to be