Ebola outbreak: Senegal confirms first case

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Health Minister Awa Marie Coll Seck told reporters on Friday that a young man from Guinea was confirmed to have contracted the virus. The man was immediately placed in quarantine, she added.

Senegal had previously closed its border with Guinea in an attempt to halt the spread of Ebola, but its frontiers are porous.

But the Guinean health services reported on Wednesday "the disappearance of a person infected with Ebola who reportedly travelled to Senegal," according to Senegal's health minister.

A young Guinean student later turned up at a hospital in the capital, Dakar, said Ms Seck, but he did not reveal that he had had contact with Ebola patients in his own country.

http://www.bbc.com/news/world-africa-28983554

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1. Borders are porous not matter where they exist. I live in NE MN and it is common knowledge that

the border into Canada is crossed daily in areas that there are no guards. When a border is 100s of miles long there are many ways to cross without permission. The people need to cooperate or this will not work.