{{A Sierra Leone woman who fled hospital after testing positive for the Ebola virus has died after turning herself in, health officials have told the media.}}<\/p>\n
Her family had forcibly removed her from a public hospital on Thursday.<\/p>\n
Saudatu Koroma’s is the first case of Ebola to be confirmed in the country’s capital Freetown, where there are no facilities to treat the virus.<\/p>\n
Since February, more than 660 people have died of Ebola in West Africa – the world’s deadliest outbreak to date.<\/p>\n
Nigeria has put all its entry points on red alert after confirming the death there of a Liberian man who was carrying the highly contagious virus.<\/p>\n
The man died after arriving at Lagos airport on Tuesday, in the first Ebola case in Africa’s most populous country.<\/p>\n
The outbreak began in southern Guinea and spread to Liberia and Sierra Leone.<\/p>\n
Reports on Saturday said that a prominent Liberian doctor, Samuel Brisbane, had died after a three-week battle with the virus.<\/p>\n
And later it emerged that a US doctor working with Ebola patients, Kent Brantly, was being treated for the virus in a hospital in the capital Monrovia.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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