WHO requests affected countries by Ebola to employ border controls

The World Health Organization (WHO) called on all countries affected by the Ebola virus (Guinea, Sierra Leone, Liberia and Nigeria) to put underway border controls to screen all citizens who want to leave the country and ban them to take a plane or a boat if they show symptoms that could be caused by the disease.

The organization added that “anyone with a disease that could be caused by the virus should not be able to travel unless it is for a medical evacuation.”

The WHO updated on Friday August 15 the balance of the affected by the epidemic, which rose up to 2,127. The deceased until that day were 1,145 in Guinea, Sierra Leone, Liberia and Nigeria. By country, 413 people have died of Ebola in Liberia; 380 in Guinea; 348 in Sierra Leone and 4 in Nigeria.