NAIROBI: Kenya has become the latest country to ban travelers from parts of Ebola-hit west Africa, as Nigeria scrambled to stop the deadly disease spreading through the continent’s most populous nation.

Kenyan Health Minister James Macharia said on Saturday that the country is closing its borders to travelers from Guinea, Liberia and Sierra Leone—the nations most affected by the worst-ever Ebola outbreak.

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