W Africa Ebola outbreak tops 700 deaths

August 01, 2014 08:42

The death toll from the worst recorded Ebola outbreak in history surpassed 700 in West Africa as security forces went house-to-house in Sierra Leone's capital looking for patients and others exposed to the disease.

Fears grew as the United States warned against travel to the three infected countries Guinea, Sierra Leone and Liberia and Sierra Leone's soccer team was blocked from boarding a plane in Nairobi, Kenya, that was to take them to the Seychelles for a game today. Airport authorities in Kenya said Seychelles immigration told them to prevent the team from travelling.

Almost half of the 57 new deaths reported by the World Health Organization occurred in Liberia, where two Americans, Dr Kent Brantly of Texas and Nancy Writebol, a North Carolina-based missionary, are also sick with Ebola.

At the White House, press secretary Josh Earnest said the US is looking into options to bring them back to the US Officials at Atlanta's Emory University Hospital said they expected one of the Americans to be transferred there "within the next several days." The hospital declined to identify which aid worker, citing privacy laws.

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