15h 5min, aug 1, 2014 y - Reviving a practice common during the medieval Black Death, the leaders of Guinea, Liberia and Sierra Leone announce plans to set up a cordon sanitaire. Troops are deployed to seal off the area where the three countries meet, a region that accounts for about 70% of the Ebola cases so far.
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