Guinea Shuts Borders in Bid to Halt Ebola Spread

Guinea has shut its borders with West African neighbors Sierra Leone and Liberia, seeking to halt the spread of Ebola. Almost 1,000 people have died in the outbreak, the majority in the three neighboring countries.

Guinean authorities on Saturday said they were temporarily shutting the borders primarily to prevent infected people crossing into Guinea, where at least 367 people have died of Ebola since March. Another 18 patients are being treated in isolation, in the country where the first cases of the current outbreak were diagnosed.

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