Ebola: Liberia places senior officials under observation via @iKanzee_RR

MONROVIA (AFP) – The Liberian football
association LFA said Tuesday it has
suspended all activities in the country as a
measure to prevent the spread of the deadly
Ebola virus.
LFA had decided “to cease operations of
football activities considering that football
matches are contact sports and Ebola is
spread through body contacts with an infected
person,” LFA chief Musa Bility said in a
statement.
Meanwhile the finance ministry in Liberia,
where 127 people have died of the disease,
said it had placed several senior officials
under observation for three weeks after a top
ministry official died from the virus.
Patrick Sawyer was on official business in
Nigeria last week when he contracted the
disease.
“All senior officials coming in direct or indirect
contact with Mr Sawyer have been placed on
the prescribed 21 days observatory
surveillance,” the ministry said in a statement.
Since March, there have been 1,201 cases of
Ebola and 672 deaths in Guinea, Liberia and
Sierra Leone, according to the US Centers for
Disease Control and Prevention.
Ebola can fell victims within days, causing
severe fever and muscle pain, vomiting,
diarrhoea and, in some cases, organ failure
and unstoppable bleeding.