EBOLA: Senior Government Officials Under Observation In Liberia

The Liberian finance ministry has announced that it has placed several of its senior officials under observation for three weeks after a top ministry official died from the Ebola virus.

It would be recalled that a Liberian businessman, Patrick Sawyer, was on official business in Nigeria last week when it was discovered that he was carrying the deadly disease.

According to a statement released by an official of the ministry on Tuesday, 29 July, 2014, “all senior officials coming in direct or indirect contact with Mr Sawyer have been placed on the prescribed 21 days observatory surveillance.”

Also, the Liberian Football Association LFA announced on Tuesday that it has suspended all activities in the country as a measure to prevent the spread of the Ebola virus.

LFA had decided “to cease operations of football activities considering that football matches are contact sports and Ebola is spread through body contacts with an infected person,” LFA chief Musa Bility said in a statement.

According to the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, no fewer than 127 people have died of the Ebola virus in Liberia.

 * The late Patrick Sawyer and his wife

It was also informed that since March, there have been 1,201 cases of Ebola and 672 deaths in Guinea, Liberia and Sierra Leone, 

Health experts say Ebola can fell victims within days, causing severe fever and muscle pain, vomiting, diarrhoea and, in some cases, organ failure and unstoppable bleeding.

Source: Legit.ng