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VIDEO: What came of Sierra Leone's 3-day Ebola lockdown?

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The three-day lockdown to combat Ebola in Sierra Leone is finished, but what came of it?

Officials have declared the experimental measure a success. The BBC reported that 30,000 aid workers were sent door to door, in hopes educating the country's citizens about the deadly virus.

Government officials from Sierra Leone were reluctant to use the term "lockdown" but there were several positive results, as this Newsy report indicates: