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Author(s) -
Clive Morris,
Wee-Ming Boon,
Marcus B Nicol
Publication year - 2012
Publication title -
medical journal of australia
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.904
H-Index - 131
eISSN - 1326-5377
pISSN - 0025-729X
DOI - 10.5694/mja12.10667
Subject(s) - psychology
Health workers carry the body of an Ebola virus victim in Kenema, Sierra Leone. The Ebola outbreak has killed 518 people in Guinea, Liberia and Sierra Leone as of 6 July this year, making it the largest and deadliest ever, according to the World Health Organization. West African states lack the resources to battle the world’s worst outbreak of Ebola and deep cultural suspicions about the disease remain a big obstacle to halting its spread, the countries’ health ministers, meeting in Ghana to draw up a regional response, said.