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               US State to Quarantine Ebola-exposed Missionaries

   by VOA News

   The southern U.S. state of North Carolina is stepping up efforts to
   guard against the possible spread of the Ebola virus to the United
   States.

   On Sunday, the North Carolina Department of Health and Human Services
   said anyone returning from Africa who worked with Ebola patients will
   be put into quarantine.

   That precautionary measure will mean isolation for three weeks after a
   missionary's last contact with an Ebola-infected person.

   Two missionaries from North Carolina-based aid organizations contracted
   the deadly virus working at a clinic in Liberia with Ebola-infected
   patients.

   The missionaries - one from SIM USA and the other from Samaritan's
   Purse - are being treated at Emory University Hospital in Atlanta,
   Georgia.

   The current Ebola outbreak in West Africa is on pace to infect more
   people than all previous outbreaks of the virus combined.

   The World Health Organization on Friday said 1,779 people in four West
   African nations have contracted the deadly virus so far, and that 961
   of them have died.

   The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has activated its
   emergency operation center at the highest level.
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