Monrovia, (Liberia) : Liberia said it had found 17 Ebola patients who had fled an attack on their clinic, sparking a panicked manhunt across a city in the throes of a seemingly unstoppable epidemic.
The World Health Organization, meanwhile, said the tropical virus had killed 84 people in just three days, a surge that has pushed the overall death toll from the west African outbreak to 1,229.
Liberia’s Information Minister Lewis Brown announced the return of the infected patients who had gone missing on Saturday after club-wielding youths raided a medical facility in a Monrovia slum. Their disappearance had raised fears of a nightmare scenario of people with the highly contagious disease wandering the city.
