Liberia’s medical chief in isolation

Liberia’s chief medical officer, who is also a deputy health minister, has put herself in quarantine as a precaution against ebola after one of her assistants died from the disease.

Bernice Dahn is the latest senior West African medical official to be directly affected by the outbreak which has killed over 3,000 people as it spreads across most of Guinea, Liberia, and Sierra Leone.

“She has placed herself under self observation due to the fact her special assistant contracted the virus,” Isaac Jackson, Liberia’s deputy information minister, told Reuters.