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]]> Ebola disease is currently spreading nine times faster in Sierra Leone than it was two months ago.

The report by the African Governance Initiative is based on averages recorded by the country’s health ministry.

This frightening news from the body set up by former British premier Tony Blair, underlines the reality that Ebola is still a full blown crisis in West Africa.

New cases of the haemorrhagic disease that’s killed almost 5000 appear to be slowing in Liberia.

The UN special envoy reports this is a result of improved burial practises.

But in Sierra Leone, a dozen new cases a day of Ebola are recorded in the rural areas and the daily increase in the capital Freetown is nine fold.

 

 

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