U.S. military aircraft (and others) arrive in Liberia
http://www.navytimes.com/article/20141009/NEWS/310090052/U-S-military-aircraft-arrive-Liberia
U.S. military aircraft arrive in Liberia
Oct. 9, 2014 - 11:11AM |
By Jonathan Paye-Layleh and Ciaran Giles
The Associated Press
MONROVIA, LIBERIA Presidents of West African countries ravaged by Ebola pleaded for aid at the World Bank on Thursday as the U.S. military ramped up its efforts in Liberia, the hardest-hit country.
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A Uganda-born doctor, John Taban Dada, died early Thursday of Ebola at a treatment center on the outskirts of Monrovia, Liberias capital. (snip) His death brings to four the number of doctors who have died in Liberia since the outbreak. Over ninety health workers, including nurses and physician assistants, have also died.
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The U.S. military is working to build medical centers in Liberia and may send up to 4,000 soldiers to help with the Ebola crisis.(snip) British troops are expected to arrive in Sierra Leone next week where they will join military engineers and planners who have been there for nearly a month helping to construct medical centers. The German military has started flying material such as protective clothing from Senegal to the worst-hit countries. A German military advance team is heading to Monrovia on Friday to prepare the way for a wider aid deployment expected to start in mid-November. The military is expected to set up a clinic for 50 patients in Monrovia.
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Three doctors have been admitted to the Madrid hospital for precautionary observation, bringing to seven the number being monitored at the center, health officials said Thursday. In Germany, a man infected in Liberia arrived Thursday at a hospital in Germany for treatment the third Ebola patient to be flown to the country.
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