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Sierra Leone--Over 400 new infected cases and 200 deaths in last week alone.

The WHO estimates there will be 10,000 new cases per week, with a fatality rate of 70%

There is a myth out there that Ebola is only isolated to west African regions, but that aint the case. Who knows some of these Ugandan troops deployed there might be carrying the deadly disease

Why are we fretting? When balaayo strikes, you deal with it, no time for warwar & calaacal.
When they get shipped over, xero iyaga iyo dayaaraddooda u gaar ah aynu ku xareeno. Halkoodaa yaaney dhaafin.
Caalamku wey ogyihiin Somali in ay yihiin dad qac ah, I wouldn't be surprised that the gaalo wouldn't be surprised by our response in their news. You gotta do what you gotta do.

This is not an airborne transmitted disease like the regular flu. This is transmitted via bodily fluids. Which begs the question, why would anyone aside from healthcare professionals be exposed to another person's bodily fluids? Loved ones need to be aware of the presence of this virus when dealing with an infected family member.

^ they have a culture of washing the dead bodies after someone dies, like us Muslims, and Ebola suries for another 3 days max once someone dies, so washing them transfers Ebola onto you.

As a young healthy buck this never occurred to me, that body is washed before burial in Islam. What was I thinking?! I wonder what the uleema have to say about this.

NAIROBI, Oct. 12 (Xinhua) -- Anxiety has gripped Kenya after a female passenger from South Sudan died on Saturday night from Ebola-like symptoms after arriving in the country.

Health officials at Kenya's Jomo Kenyatta International Airport (JKIA) told Xinhua on Sunday that the female passenger on board Kenya Airways flight alighted at 6:45 p.m. with high fever and bleeding from the openings of her body.

"We have not established what exactly caused the death but medical officials including director of medical services are carrying out tests to establish the cause," an official who sought anonymity told Xinhua by telephone.

The official said the female passenger who had arrived from Juba was later rushed to the hospital but died in the evening. The health ministry is expected to issue a formal statement concerning the incident later on Sunday to confirm whether the patient had Ebola.

The incident caused panic at the busy airport which was immediately deserted for hours after the death of the passenger. However, the fate of the other passengers on the flight is still unknown.

The World Health Organization has classified Kenya as a "high- risk" country for the spread of the deadly Ebola virus which has claimed over 4,000 lives in African countries since earlier this year.

Kenya is a major transport hub with many flights from West African countries.

The Ministry of Health assured Kenyans that there was no need for panic, as no case of Ebola had been confirmed in the country.