Ebola health workers should get danger money, expert says

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Ebola health workers should get danger money, expert says

<p><a href="http://news.yahoo.com/ebola-health-workers-danger-money-expert-says-150857716.html"><img src="http://l2.yimg.com/bt/api/res/1.2/9A3WRgeGtWdyJ5FNu0bSIA--/YXBwaWQ9eW5ld3M7Zmk9ZmlsbDtoPTg2O3E9NzU7dz0xMzA-/http://media.zenfs.com/en_us/News/Reuters/2014-09-01T150857Z_1_LYNXMPEA80173_RTROPTP_2_HEALTH-EBOLA-LIBERIA.JPG" width="130" height="86" alt="Health workers wearing protective clothing prepare themselves before to carrying an abandoned dead body presenting with Ebola symptoms at Duwala market in Monrovia" align="left" title="Health workers wearing protective clothing prepare themselves before to carrying an abandoned dead body presenting with Ebola symptoms at Duwala market in Monrovia" border="0" /></a>By Misha Hussain DAKAR (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Doctors and nurses fighting the world's biggest outbreak of the Ebola virus in West Africa should get incentives including better pay, insurance and access to the new Ebola drug ZMapp, an international health expert said. The hemorrhagic fever, spread through the blood, sweat and vomit of the sick, has killed more than 1,550 people since March, including more than 120 health workers. Johan von Schreeb, who has traveled to the region to advise officials on how to manage the deadly epidemic, said if health workers were not protected and remunerated for their dangerous work, they could not be expected to report for duty. &quot;Modern mobile phone technology can be used to track who is coming to work as well as transferring money directly so they can be paid on a performance-based system on top of their normal salaries,&quot; he told Thomson Reuters Foundation from Sierra Leone, where he is providing technical support for the outbreak.</p><br clear="all"/>

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