KENEMA, Sierra Leone
More than 1,200 West Africans are suspected of having contracted the Ebola virus. IRC staff and community health workers have been able to reach 160,000 people in over 800 villages in eastern Sierra Leone with information on how to stop the spread of the deadly disease.
More than 1,200 West Africans are suspected of having contracted the Ebola virus, a number which, if confirmed, will double that of the 2000-2001 outbreak in Uganda, until now the largest. To date, 706 cases have been confirmed across Guinea, Sierra Leone and Liberia; 349 people have died of the highly infectious disease.