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Members of Dallas’ fire rescue unit prepare to decontaminate areas near the The Village Bend East apartment of a second healthcare worker who has tested positive for Ebola, on October 15, 2014. (AP Photo/City of Dallas Public Information, Sana Syed)
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US soldiers from the 101st Airborne Division train before their deployment to West Africa to help in the fight against Ebola at Fort Campbell, Kentucky, on October 9, 2014. (Reuters/Harrison McClary)
WHO: Ebola death toll rises to more than 4,000
Monrovia, Liberia, AP—Liberian lawmakers on Friday rejected a proposal to grant President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf the power to further restrict movement and public gatherings and to confiscate property in the fight against Ebola. One legislator said such a law would...Caption:
A local market in Freetown, Sierra Leone, is deserted as the government enforces a three day lockdown on movement of all people in a attempt to fight the Ebola virus on September 19, 2014. (AP Photo/Michael Duff)
Sierra Leone capital at standstill as Ebola lockdown begins
Freetown, Reuters—Sierra Leone began a three-day lockdown on Friday in an effort to halt the spread of the Ebola virus, as President Ernest Bai Koroma urged residents to comply with the emergency measures. Streets in the normally bustling seaside capital Freetown were...Caption:
A Liberian man pushes bread past a wall mural, part of a sensitization program about the deadly Ebola virus in Monrovia, Liberia, on 15 September, 2014. (EPA/Ahmed Jallanzo)
US to assign 3,000 from US military to fight Ebola
Washington, AP—The Obama administration is ramping up its response to West Africa’s Ebola crisis, preparing to assign 3,000 US military personnel to the afflicted region to supply medical and logistical support to overwhelmed local health care systems and to...Caption:
A medical worker wearing Personal Protective Equipment (PPE) gestures beside a woman inside the high-risk area of the Elwa hospital runned by Medecins Sans Frontieres (Doctors without Borders), where are being treated Ebola patients, on September 7, 2014 in Monrovia. (AFP PHOTO / DOMINIQUE FAGET)