Exclusive: Emergency food drops eyed for quarantined Ebola region of West Africa

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Exclusive: Emergency food drops eyed for quarantined Ebola region of West Africa

<p><a href="http://news.yahoo.com/exclusive-emergency-food-drops-eyed-quarantined-ebola-region-223427526.html"><img src="http://l2.yimg.com/bt/api/res/1.2/goC8nN.xtzelT4YrBSRHSA--/YXBwaWQ9eW5ld3M7Zmk9ZmlsbDtoPTg2O3E9NzU7dz0xMzA-/http://media.zenfs.com/en_us/News/Reuters/2014-08-14T225503Z_1_LYNXMPEA7D0YI_RTROPTP_2_HEALTH-EBOLA.JPG" width="130" height="86" alt="A U.N. convoy of soldiers passes a screen displaying a message on Ebola on a street in Abidjan" align="left" title="A U.N. convoy of soldiers passes a screen displaying a message on Ebola on a street in Abidjan" border="0" /></a>By Stella Dawson WASHINGTON (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - International agencies are looking into emergency food drops and truck convoys to reach extremely hungry people in Liberia and Sierra Leone, who are cordoned off from the outside world to halt the spread of the Ebola virus, a top World Bank official said on Thursday. Truckers scared of the highly infectious disease halt deliveries. The Mano River region, home to about 1 million people and an epicenter for the deadly disease, is a major concern and the issue was raised on Wednesday with U.N. Secretary General Ban Ki Moon, said Tim Evans, senior director for health at the World Bank. “There has been a lot of inflation in food prices and a lot of difficulty in getting food to the quarantined population,” he said in an interview.</p><br clear="all"/>

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