MOSCOW, November 3 (RIA Novosti) — Another doctor has been diagnosed with the Ebola Virus Disease in Sierra Leone, amid intense efforts to curb the spread of the virus, The Independent reported Monday.
The country’s government chief medical officer, Dr. Brima Kargbo, confirmed on Sunday that the test results of the doctor identified as Dr. Godfrey George were positive for Ebola, according to the newspaper.
Dr. George was working as a superintendent at the Kambia Government Hospital in northern Sierra Leone, and later driven to the capital, Freetown, after he expressed health complaints.
Meanwhile, France’s government said on Saturday that it was treating a United Nations employee who contracted Ebola in Sierra Leone. In late October, a Norwegian doctor who was also infected with Ebola in Sierra Leone was released from an Oslo hospital, having recovered from the virus disease.
With countries worrying about the spread of the virus disease, which has so far killed almost 5,000 people, debate continues about mandatory quarantine for health workers returning to their home countries.
According to a poll conducted by NBC and the Wall Street Journal published Monday, 71 percent of Americans backed mandatory quarantine for Ebola health workers.
Several countries including Australia and Canada have all together stopped processing visas for people coming from the hardest hit countries of Liberia, Sierra Leone and Guinea.
According to the World Health Organization, 272 of the more than 520 health workers who have contracted Ebola in West Africa died.
The current Ebola outbreak began in February in Guinea, later spreading to the neighboring West African countries. No official cure is known but several countries are currently working on developing Ebola vaccines, with Russia planning to introduce three vaccines within the next six months.
