Ebola in Fifth Country as Sierra Leone Fires Health Chief
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West Africa’s Ebola outbreak spread to a fifth country as a Guinean man tested positive for the virus in Senegal, a setback in efforts to contain the worst epidemic of the illness on record.
In Sierra Leone, Miatta Kargbo, the country’s health minister and coordinator in the fight against the disease that has claimed 422 deaths there, will be replaced by Abu Bakarr Fofanah, the presidential office said yesterday in a statement. The move is part of an effort to make the response to the Ebola outbreak “more efficient and effective,” according to the statement.