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Ebola: Sierra Leone village in lockdown after 31 new cases recorded
Flare-up of virus in community just outside town of Makeni with WHO linking cases to one man who escaped quarantine in Freetown
Lisa O'Carroll
Friday 27 February 2015 10.33 EST
Efforts to beat Ebola in Sierra Leone have been dealt a setback after 31 new cases were recorded in one village.
The community of 500 just outside the town of Makeni has now been put in lockdown by the army amid fears that more could be infected.
The World Health Organisation said cases have been linked to one man who escaped a quarantine in Freetown to go home to his village to get treatment from a traditional faith healer.
The quarantine area is a fishing community, yards from the hotel where many of humanitarian agencies have stayed.
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The IMC said the man who escaped quarantine died about 24 hours after returning home and his family had brought in a faith healer to treat him with traditional methods which included touching and washing him.
?Within a week the man?s mother, father, uncle, brother and the faith healer who performed the traditional ceremony on him were all in the ETC,? it said.
The faith healer and the man?s father have both died within the past 48 hours, the IMC said.
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Flare-up of virus in community just outside town of Makeni with WHO linking cases to one man who escaped quarantine in Freetown
Lisa O'Carroll
Friday 27 February 2015 10.33 EST
Efforts to beat Ebola in Sierra Leone have been dealt a setback after 31 new cases were recorded in one village.
The community of 500 just outside the town of Makeni has now been put in lockdown by the army amid fears that more could be infected.
The World Health Organisation said cases have been linked to one man who escaped a quarantine in Freetown to go home to his village to get treatment from a traditional faith healer.
The quarantine area is a fishing community, yards from the hotel where many of humanitarian agencies have stayed.
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The IMC said the man who escaped quarantine died about 24 hours after returning home and his family had brought in a faith healer to treat him with traditional methods which included touching and washing him.
?Within a week the man?s mother, father, uncle, brother and the faith healer who performed the traditional ceremony on him were all in the ETC,? it said.
The faith healer and the man?s father have both died within the past 48 hours, the IMC said.
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