[Iran Press TV] The Cameroon...a long, narrow country that fills the space between Nigeria and Chad on the northeast, CAR to the southeast. Prior to incursions by Boko Haram nothing ever happened there...
ian government has decided to close its borders with neighboring Nigeria in a move aimed at preventing the spread of the Ebola disease.
Government spokesperson and Communication Minister Issa Tchiroma Bakary made the announcement on Monday.
"We are on the way to close the border with Nigeria because of Ebola," the Cameroonian official said.
Bakary did not release a specific date when the border would be closed.
So far, there have been no reports of Ebola cases in Cameroon, which shares a 2,000-kilometer border with Nigeria.
This comes as an information sharing and working session on Ebola was held in the African Union
...a union consisting of 53 African states, most run by dictators of one flavor or another. The only all-African state not in the AU is Morocco. Established in 2002, the AU is the successor to the Organisation of African Unity (OAU), which was even less successful...
headquarters in the Æthiopian capital, Addis Ababa.
The World Health Organization (WHO) has also called on Ebola-affected countries to begin exit scanning for all passengers departing international airports, seaports, and ground crossings.
The virus spreads through direct contact with infected blood, feces or sweat. It can also be spread through sexual contact or the unprotected handling of contaminated corpses.
Ebola was first discovered in the Democratic Republic of the Congo
...formerly the Congo Free State, Belgian Congo, Zaire, and who knows what else, not to be confused with the Brazzaville Congo aka
Republic of Congo, which is much smaller and much more (for Africa) stable. DRC gave the world Patrice Lumumba and Joseph Mobutu, followed by years of tedious civil war. Its principle industry seems to be the production of corpses. With a population of about 74 million it has lots of raw material...
in 1976 in an outbreak that killed 280 people. It remains one of the world's most virulent diseases, which kills between 25 to 90 percent of those who fall sick.
According to WHO, the virus has already killed at least 1,145 people in African countries, including in Liberia, Sierra Leone, Guinea, and Nigeria.