Liberia closes borders as Ebola hits major west African cities

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Liberia closes borders as Ebola hits major west African cities

<p><a href="http://news.yahoo.com/liberia-closes-borders-steps-ebola-screening-101807774.html"><img src="http://l3.yimg.com/bt/api/res/1.2/tIyq_PWQkZs2V.p4NreQjw--/YXBwaWQ9eW5ld3M7Zmk9ZmlsbDtoPTg2O3E9NzU7dz0xMzA-/http://media.zenfs.com/en_us/News/afp.com/6361837262a8db6d418e937f59296055280fe115.jpg" width="130" height="86" alt="Liberia's President Ellen Johnson-Sirleaf speaks in Davos on January 22, 2014" align="left" title="Liberia's President Ellen Johnson-Sirleaf speaks in Davos on January 22, 2014" border="0" /></a>Liberian President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf has announced the closure of most of the Ebola-hit country's land borders after the deadly tropical virus spread to two of west Africa's largest cities. Liberia, along with neighbouring Guinea and Sierra Leone, is struggling to contain an epidemic that has infected some 1,200 people and left at least 670 dead across the region since the start of the year. Last week authorities in Sierra Leone's capital Freetown and Lagos in Nigeria announced their first cases, marking an alarming new front in the fight against a disease mainly confined to remote villages and rural outposts. &quot;All borders of Liberia will be closed with the exception of major entry points,&quot; Sirleaf said in a statement late Sunday.</p><br clear="all"/>

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