International medical aid teams are to arrive in eastern Sierra Leone to try to deal with an outbreak of the deadly and highly contagious Ebola virus.
The experts are from the World Health Organization and the Doctors Without Borders charity.
This comes after six suspected Ebola patients were taken out of hospitals by their families, defying doctors.
One of the patients later died amid fears that the virus could spread, a local health official said.
Nearly 200 people have died of Ebola in West Africa since an outbreak was first reported in Guinea in March.
There is no cure or vaccine for Ebola — one of the world’s deadliest viruses, BBC informs.
