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WATCH ABOVE: Ottawa has stepped up to help by donating 1000 doses of an experimental vaccine. Canada


WATCH ABOVE: Ottawa has stepped up to help by donating 1000 doses of an experimental vaccine. Canada s Tekmira Pharmaceuticals is working with the FDA to get its drug tested on Ebola patients. It caused an ethical rift why was it offered to Americans first? Mandy Clark reports. Story continues below
MONROVIA, Liberia Liberian authorities expanded Ebola treatment centres in the capital Saturday to cope with increasing numbers of patients, while two more airlines announced they were halting flights to the capitals of Liberia and Sierra Leone amid the deepening crisis.
Kenya Airways and regional carrier Gambia Bird join a number of other airlines in temporarily cancelling flights to avoid transmitting the disease beyond the four countries already affected in West Africa.
The Kenya Airways flights will stop as of midnight Tuesday, said Titus Naikuni, the chief executive officer of Kenya Airways. The decision was made with guidance from the country s health ministry, Naikuni said.
The decision has been taken in the light of international concern about the further spread of the Ebola virus in the West African sub-region, and with the aim of continuing to offer a safe and reliable service to all customers, whilst also protecting the health and well-being of passengers and crew, the statement said.
Health experts have warned that the Ebola outbreak in West Africa may last another six months. At least 1,145 people have died across Liberia, Sierra national hotel miami Leone, Guinea and Nigeria, and that may vastly underestimate national hotel miami the magnitude of the outbreak, the World Health Organization says.
Isolating Ebola patients is critical to slowing the spread of the disease, national hotel miami as sick people can transmit it through national hotel miami their bodily fluids such as blood, sweat or urine. There is no licensed treatment or vaccine for the disease, which has killed at least half of its victims this year.
Health workers treating Ebola patients on the front lines of the crisis have borne the brunt of the fatalities. Sierra Leone s president, Ernest Bai Koroma, told journalists Friday that his country has lost two top doctors national hotel miami and 32 nurses.
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