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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)
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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)
Ebola is surging in places it had been beaten back
Conakry, AP—Doctors Without Borders shuttered one of its Ebola treatment centers in Guinea in May. They thought the deadly virus was being contained there. The Macenta region, right on the Liberian border, had been one of the first places where the outbreak surfaced,...Caption:
A man wearing a protective suit washes a health center’s hallways in Kandopleu village, near Biankouma, Ivory Coast, on August 14, 2014. (AFP Photo/Issouf Sanogo)
US official warns Ebola outbreak will get worse
Freetown, Sierra Leone, AP—A third top doctor has died from Ebola in Sierra Leone, a government official said Wednesday, as a leading American health official warned that the outbreak sweeping West Africa would get worse. The disease has already killed more than 1,400...Caption:
A Liberian soldier mans a checkpoint to control the movement of people as authorities try to prevent the Ebola virus from spreading on the outskirts of Monrovia, Liberia, on August 7, 2014. (AP Photo/Abbas Dulleh)
WHO declares Ebola epidemic an international health emergency
London, Reuters—West Africa’s Ebola epidemic is an “extraordinary event” and now constitutes an international health risk, the World Health Organization (WHO) said on Friday. The Geneva-based UN health agency said the possible consequences of a...Caption:
A Liberian nurse in protective clothing being sprayed with disinfectant after preparing several bodies of victims of Ebola for burial in the isolation unit of the ELWA Hospital in Monrovia, Liberia, on August 01, 2014. (EPA/Ahmed Jalianzo)