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A child stands near a sign advising of a
quarantined home in an effort to combat the spread of the Ebola virus in Port
Loko, Sierra Leone, Wednesday, Oct. 22, 2014. (AP / Michael Duff, File)
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Authorities in Sierra
Leone say a doctor has died of Ebola -- the fifth local doctor in the West
African nation to succumb to the disease.
The government said
Monday that Dr. Godfrey George, medical superintendent of Kambia Government
Hospital in northern Sierra Leone, died overnight.
George's death was
announced by Dr. Brima Kargbo, the chief medical officer of Sierra Leone.
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