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Title: US ramps up response to Ebola in Nigeria
Post by: riky on August 10, 2014, 09:00:19 AM
US ramps up response to Ebola in Nigeria

<p><a href="http://news.yahoo.com/us-ramps-response-ebola-nigeria-203522625.html"><img src="http://l.yimg.com/bt/api/res/1.2/piv6PwIouT0_AorR0qtSKA--/YXBwaWQ9eW5ld3M7Zmk9ZmlsbDtoPTg2O3E9NzU7dz0xMzA-/http://media.zenfs.com/en_us/News/afp.com/Part-PAR-Par7940230-1-1-0.jpg" width="130" height="86" alt="A photo taken on July 24, 2014 shows the First Consultants Medical Centre in Lagos, where allegedly a 40-year-old Liberian man died from the Ebola disease" align="left" title="A photo taken on July 24, 2014 shows the First Consultants Medical Centre in Lagos, where allegedly a 40-year-old Liberian man died from the Ebola disease" border="0" /></a>US health authorities said Friday they are sending extra personnel and resources to Nigeria, which has declared a national emergency as it battles a deadly outbreak of Ebola for the first time. &quot;We are starting to ramp up our staffing in Lagos,&quot; US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention spokesman Tom Skinner told AFP. &quot;We are really concerned about Lagos and the potential for spread there, given the fact that Lagos -- and Nigeria for that matter -- has never seen Ebola.&quot; Nigeria became the fourth West African country involved in the largest Ebola outbreak in history when a dual US-Liberian citizen who was infected with Ebola traveled by plane to Lagos on July 20.</p><br clear="all"/>

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