Sierra Leone: As Fears Heighten About 'Ebola' Outbreak - Taskforce Formed to Coordinate Public Health Response

Minister of Health and Sanitation, Ms. Miatta Ballay Kargbo, yesterday revealed that an emergency national response team, known as 'The Taskforce', has been established to coordinate and communicate government's response to a feared outbreak of the dreaded Ebola virus in Sierra Leone. She said the team would work in collaboration with development partners.

She confirmed that the move was in direct response to an outbreak of a mysterious virus, feared to be Ebola, which has been reported in neighbouring Guinea, and has already killed close to sixty people.

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