United Nations $1 billion Ebola appeal severely underfunded: U.N. officials

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United Nations $1 billion Ebola appeal severely underfunded: U.N. officials

<p><a href="http://news.yahoo.com/united-nations-1-billion-ebola-appeal-severely-underfunded-184714258.html"><img src="http://l2.yimg.com/bt/api/res/1.2/mh4gBT8UHYyw3kK1W8Vw2g--/YXBwaWQ9eW5ld3M7Zmk9ZmlsbDtoPTg2O3E9NzU7dz0xMzA-/http://media.zenfs.com/en_us/News/Reuters/2014-10-10T184926Z_1_LYNXNPEA990WZ_RTROPTP_2_HEALTH-EBOLA-UN.JPG" width="130" height="86" alt="United Nations Deputy Secretary-General Jan Eliasson addresses the United Nations General Assembly during a special meeting for a briefing on the West Africa Ebola outbreak in New York" align="left" title="United Nations Deputy Secretary-General Jan Eliasson addresses the United Nations General Assembly during a special meeting for a briefing on the West Africa Ebola outbreak in New York" border="0" /></a>By Michelle Nichols UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) - A $1 billion United Nations appeal to fight Ebola has only been 25 percent funded and senior U.N. officials warned on Friday that no country was safe as the world faced a crisis with staggering potential. &quot;It is the most extraordinary challenge that the world could possibly face. You sometimes see films about this sort of thing and you imagine how could such a thing happen. This is more extreme than any film I have ever seen,&quot; said Dr. David Nabarro, who is heading the U.N. response to the Ebola epidemic. ...</p><br clear="all"/>

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