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US Peace Corps Evacuating Staff From Ebola-Stricken Areas

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US Peace Corps nonessential personnel are being evacuated from Liberia, Sierra Leone and Guinea due to reported outbreaks of the Ebola virus, according to the official website.

MOSCOW, July 31 (RIA Novosti) — US Peace Corps nonessential personnel are being evacuated from Liberia, Sierra Leone and Guinea due to reported outbreaks of the Ebola virus, according to the official website.

Two of the agency’s volunteers have been placed into isolation after coming in contact with an infected individual who later passed away, ABC News says with reference to an official.

According to the Peace Corps official website, there are currently 102 volunteers working in the fields of education, health and agriculture in Guinea alone. Liberia has 108 more with 130 in Sierra Leone, all working in education.

The US run Peace Corps programs have plans for emergency actions individually developed for each country in place. Main staff and volunteers are trained to respond accordingly to those plans in situations such as the one at hand.

The current outbreak began in southern Guinea in February and spread to Liberia and Sierra Leone since then. The virus is transmitted via contact with the blood or bodily fluids of the infected.

Ebola first appeared in 1976 in Sudan and the Democratic Republic of the Congo. Symptoms begin with a fever, muscle pain and a sore throat, and then escalate to vomiting, diarrhea and internal and external bleeding. The incubation period can be up to 21 days. No vaccine currently exists.

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