Empty Ebola beds in Liberia pose riddle for health workers

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Empty Ebola beds in Liberia pose riddle for health workers

<p><a href="http://news.yahoo.com/empty-ebola-beds-liberia-pose-riddle-health-workers-153958467.html"><img src="http://l3.yimg.com/bt/api/res/1.2/TC2snVWH5u.Jp8eBdXyvgg--/YXBwaWQ9eW5ld3M7Zmk9ZmlsbDtoPTg2O3E9NzU7dz0xMzA-/http://media.zenfs.com/en_ZA/News/Reuters/2014-11-07T153958Z_1007970001_LYNXMPEAA60PR_RTROPTP_2_OZATP-UK-HEALTH-EBOLA-LIBERIA.JPG" width="130" height="86" alt="Burial team remove body of suspected Ebola virus victim in Freetown" align="left" title="Burial team remove body of suspected Ebola virus victim in Freetown" border="0" /></a>By Derick Snyder and Joe Bavier MONROVIA/ABIDJAN (Reuters) - Health workers in Liberia are struggling to tell whether a growing number of empty beds at Ebola treatment centres is a sign that the country's ramped up response to the disease is working - or just a lull in the epidemic. Of the West African countries hit by the 11-month outbreak, Liberia has suffered the most deaths. The virus has killed nearly 5,000 people there and in neighbouring Sierra Leone and Guinea - though numbers could be far higher owing to under-reporting of cases, the World Health Organisation (WHO) warned. ...</p><br clear="all"/>

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