From The Australian:
COUNTRIES infected by the deadly Ebola virus in Africa are resorting to increasingly desperate measures amid the worst outbreak the world has known.
Liberia’s President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf closed all but four of the country’s borders while Nigeria shut and quarantined a hospital as the death toll rose to at least 674 in four countries.
Mrs Sirleaf also restricted public gatherings and quarantined the most heavily affected communities in Liberia after one of the doctors who was treating patients here in the capital died of the disease on Saturday.
Only the main airport, south of Monrovia, and three land crossings into Guinea and Sierra Leone would remain open, she said, and there would be “stringent preventive measures” and testing centres to stop sick people travelling.
Preventive and testing centres would be established at the entry points for outgoing and incoming travellers, she added, describing it as a national emergency.
Here are the latest epidemic charts which are curling a little parabolic:
