Health workers strike at southern Sierra Leone’s only Ebola clinic

A health worker fixes another health worker's protective suit in the Aberdeen district of FreetownFREETOWN (Reuters) – More than 400 health workers at the only Ebola treatment center in southern Sierra Leone went on strike on Wednesday over unpaid risk allowances the government is meant to fund, officials said. The clinic in Bandajuma in Bo district has about 60 beds for Ebola patients – about a fifth of Sierra Leone's total Ebola beds – and U.N. officials warn that the number of Ebola cases is surging in Sierra Leone due to a lack of treatment centers. …

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U.S. states’ pot legalization not in line with international law: U.N. agency

A worker rolls marijuana joints for sale at the Botanacare marijuana store ahead of their grand opening on New Year's day in Northglenn, ColoradoVIENNA (Reuters) – Moves by some U.S. states to legalize marijuana are not in line with international drugs conventions, the U.N. anti-narcotics chief said on Wednesday, adding he would discuss the issue in Washington next week. Residents of Oregon, Alaska, and the U.S. capital voted this month to allow the use of marijuana, boosting the legalization movement as cannabis usage is increasingly recognized by the American mainstream. …

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Mali quarantines dozens after Ebola kills second victim

Health workers wearing protective clothing prepare before carrying an abandoned dead body presenting with Ebola symptoms at Duwala market in MonroviaBy Joe Penney BAMAKO (Reuters) – Authorities in Mali quarantined dozens of people on Wednesday at the home of a 25-year-old nurse who died from Ebola in the capital, Bamako, and at the clinic where he treated an imam from Guinea who died with Ebola-like symptoms. The imam from the border town of Kouremale was never tested for the disease and his body was washed in Mali and returned to Guinea for burial without precautions against the virus. Two aid workers said that another person who lived in the house where the imam stayed in Bamako had died this week and was buried without being tested. …

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