Liberia continues hunt for Ebola patients

Liberia continued its desperate search for 17 Ebola patients who fled an attack on a quarantine center in the capital of Monrovia. The searches have so far failed to turn up any of the missing victims, even as neighboring Guinea reported a wave of sick Liberians crossing the border that had been officially closed 10 days ago. All of the 29 patients in the center tested “positive for Ebola” and were receiving preliminary treatment before being brought to a hospital. The club-wielding youths who raided the center are probable carriers of Ebola, Information Minister Lewis Brown said, because “they took mattresses and bedding soaked with fluids from the patients.”

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