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As Ebola's Spread Continues, Warnings of an Inadequate Global Response

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As Ebola's Spread Continues, Warnings of an Inadequate Global Response

Health care workers wearing protective suits leave a high-risk area in a hospital in Monrovia last week. Liberia has been hardest-hit by the Ebola virus raging through West Africa, with 624 deaths and 972 cases since the start of the year. Karen Weintraub for National Geographic  Published September 3, 2014

More volunteers are desperately needed, officials say.

The battle against Ebola is winnable, public health officials say, but a growing chorus of institutions and experts is warning this week that an insufficient global response to West Africa's epidemic may put a solution to the crisis out of reach.

The disease is spreading uncontrollably in Liberia and Sierra Leone, has now spread beyond Lagos in Nigeria, and has just been detected in a fifth West African country, Senegal.

http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2014/09/140903-ebola-global-response-west-africa-world-health-medicine/?google_editors_picks=true

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