Sierra Leone deploys troops to guard quarantined Ebola patients

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Sierra Leone deployed troops to guard quarantined Ebola patients Tuesday as Saudi Arabia’s first suspected case sparked fears of a possible global spread and British Airways cancelled flights to two west African countries.

A presidential aide in Sierra Leone told AFP the soldiers would “deter relatives and friends of Ebola patients from forcefully taking them from hospitals without medical consent”.

Ebola, a deadly tropical virus that causes severe fever and, in the worst cases, unstoppable bleeding, has claimed the lives of almost 900 people in four west African nations since the start of the year.

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