US Marines arrive near Monrovia to assist Liberia.
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WEST Africa’s leaders yesterday pleaded for the world’s help in dealing with an Ebola crisis one called “a tragedy unforeseen in modern times”.
“Our people are dying,” Sierra Leone President Ernest Bai Koroma lamented by videoconference at a World Bank meeting in Washington. He said other countries were not responding fast enough while children were orphaned and infected doctors and nurses were lost to the disease.
Alpha Conde of Guinea said the region’s countries were in “a very fragile situation”. Ebola is “an international threat and deserves an international response”, he said.
US Centres for Disease Control and Prevention director Tom Frieden said he was reminded of the start of the AIDS epidemic. “We have to work now so this is not the next AIDS,” he said.
A fleet of US aircraft landed outside the Liberian capital, Monrovia, yesterday carrying equipment and an extra 100 marines bringing to just over 300 the number of US troops in the country building emergency medical centres to treat victims.
Liberian President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf postponed Senate elections scheduled for Tuesday.
The outbreak has killed more than 3800 people, mostly in Guinea, Liberia and Sierra Leone.
University of Maryland researchers have announced that the first study of a possible Ebola vaccine in Africa is under way. Scientists say three healthcare workers in Mali received experimental shots developed by the US government. Mali has not had any cases of Ebola, but borders the outbreak zone.
The condition of Spanish nursing assistant Teresa Romero deteriorated yesterday, said Yolanda Fuentes, deputy director of Madrid’s Carlos III hospital. Four doctors, four nurses, a hospital orderly and two beauty salon workers who came into contact with Ms Romero have been admitted to hospital, bringing to 14 the number of people being monitored at the centre.
In Germany, a man infected in Liberia arrived on Thursday at a hospital for treatment — the third Ebola patient to be flown to the country. The hospital in Leipzig said he worked for the UN.
Dallas health officials say the sheriff’s deputy who exhibited symptoms of Ebola has tested negative for the disease. Michael Monnig was among a group of deputies who went inside the Dallas apartment where Thomas Eric Duncan, the first Ebola case diagnosed in the US, was staying. Duncan died on Thursday.
“Our people are dying,” Sierra Leone President Ernest Bai Koroma lamented by videoconference at a World Bank meeting in Washington. He said other countries were not responding fast enough while children were orphaned and infected doctors and nurses were lost to the disease.
Alpha Conde of Guinea said the region’s countries were in “a very fragile situation”. Ebola is “an international threat and deserves an international response”, he said.
US Centres for Disease Control and Prevention director Tom Frieden said he was reminded of the start of the AIDS epidemic. “We have to work now so this is not the next AIDS,” he said.
A fleet of US aircraft landed outside the Liberian capital, Monrovia, yesterday carrying equipment and an extra 100 marines bringing to just over 300 the number of US troops in the country building emergency medical centres to treat victims.
Liberian President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf postponed Senate elections scheduled for Tuesday.
The outbreak has killed more than 3800 people, mostly in Guinea, Liberia and Sierra Leone.
University of Maryland researchers have announced that the first study of a possible Ebola vaccine in Africa is under way. Scientists say three healthcare workers in Mali received experimental shots developed by the US government. Mali has not had any cases of Ebola, but borders the outbreak zone.
The condition of Spanish nursing assistant Teresa Romero deteriorated yesterday, said Yolanda Fuentes, deputy director of Madrid’s Carlos III hospital. Four doctors, four nurses, a hospital orderly and two beauty salon workers who came into contact with Ms Romero have been admitted to hospital, bringing to 14 the number of people being monitored at the centre.
In Germany, a man infected in Liberia arrived on Thursday at a hospital for treatment — the third Ebola patient to be flown to the country. The hospital in Leipzig said he worked for the UN.
Dallas health officials say the sheriff’s deputy who exhibited symptoms of Ebola has tested negative for the disease. Michael Monnig was among a group of deputies who went inside the Dallas apartment where Thomas Eric Duncan, the first Ebola case diagnosed in the US, was staying. Duncan died on Thursday.
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