{"id":2789,"date":"2014-12-11T08:39:34","date_gmt":"2014-12-11T13:39:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=2789"},"modified":"2014-12-11T08:39:34","modified_gmt":"2014-12-11T13:39:34","slug":"bbc-news-ebola-crisis-sierra-leone-bodies-found-piled-up-in-kono","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=2789","title":{"rendered":"BBC News – Ebola crisis: Sierra Leone bodies found piled up in Kono"},"content":{"rendered":"

BBC News – Ebola crisis: Sierra Leone bodies found piled up in Kono<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Health officials in Sierra Leone have discovered scores of bodies in a remote diamond-mining area, raising fears that the scale of the Ebola outbreak may have been underreported.<\/p>\n

The World Health Organization said they uncovered a “grim scene” in the eastern district of Kono.<\/p>\n

A WHO response team had been sent to Kono to investigate a sharp rise in Ebola cases.<\/p>\n

Ebola has killed 6,346 people in West Africa, with more than 17,800 infected.<\/p>\n

Sierra Leone has the highest number of Ebola cases in West Africa, with 7,897 cases since the beginning of the outbreak.<\/p>\n

Continue reading the main story<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

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Ebola deaths in West Africa<\/h2>\n

Up to 3 – 6 December<\/h3>\n
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6,346<\/p>\n

Deaths – probable, confirmed and suspected<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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(Includes one in the US and six in Mali)<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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    3,177<\/span>\u00a0Liberia<\/p>\n<\/li>\n

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    1,742<\/span>\u00a0Sierra Leone<\/p>\n<\/li>\n

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    1,412<\/span>\u00a0Guinea<\/p>\n<\/li>\n

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    8<\/span>\u00a0Nigeria<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n

    Source: WHO<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
    Getty<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

    The WHO said in a statement on Wednesday that over 11 days in Kono, “two teams buried 87 bodies, including a nurse, an ambulance driver, and a janitor drafted into removing bodies as they piled up”.<\/p>\n

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    …click on the above link to read the rest of the article…<\/span><\/p>\n

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