US PEACE CORPS TO BE EVACUATED FROM COUNTRIES WITH THE EBOLA EPIDEMIC. The largest recorded Ebola outbreak in history has led the U.S. Peace Corps to evacuate hundreds of volunteers from three affected West African countries, and a State Department official on Wednesday said two volunteers were under isolation after having contact with a person who later died of the virus. Meanwhile, Liberias president ordered the nations schools to shut down and most civil servants to stay home as fears deepened over the virus that already has killed more than 670 people in West Africa. Sierra Leone president, Ernest Koroma also ordered a state of emergency in Sierra Leone. The Peace Corps said it was evacuating 340 volunteers from Liberia as well as neighboring Guinea and Sierra Leone.
Posted on: Thu, 31 Jul 2014 15:10:15 +0000