Sierra Leone orders residents to stay home for 3 days to combat Ebola

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last updated 10 January 2015

Sierra Leone has instructed its six million residents to stay home for three days, starting Friday and ending Sunday, in an effort to stop the spread of Ebola.

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On Thursday, the U.N. Security Council held an emergency meeting, where it called Ebola "a threat to international peace and security." The Security Council asked all countries to send supplies and experts to help combat the outbreak, which so far has killed at least 2,600 people in West Africa. In Guinea, the bodies of a team of health workers and radio journalists were discovered, days after being kidnapped by armed villagers. Several health workers have been attacked by fearful villagers who do not trust outsiders.

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Catherine Garcia has worked as a senior writer at The Week since 2014. Her writing and reporting have appeared in Entertainment Weekly, The New York Times, Wirecutter, NBC News and "The Book of Jezebel," among others. She's a graduate of the University of Redlands and the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism.

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