Liberia: Sime Darby Slows Liberia Operations Due to Ebola Virus

Aug 14, 2014 | Bloomberg
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Sime Darby Bhd (SIME), the world’s biggest listed palm oil producer, said it’s slowing production in Liberia because of the Ebola virus.

The Kuala Lumpur-based company, which operates the West African nation’s largest oil-palm plantation, will continue paying its 3,000 workers, spokesman David Kolleh said in an e-mail today.

The current outbreak of the viral disease has infected 1,848 people and killed 1,013 as of Aug. 9, according to the World Health Organization’s latest data. While historically Ebola has a 90 percent mortality rate, in the current outbreak about 40 percent of patients have survived.