West Africa: Fight Against Ebola Requires District-By-District Approach - Head of UN Response Mission

30 December 2014

The outgoing head of the head of the United Nations Emergency Ebola Response Mission (UNMEER) said today that communities are going to play a big role in defeating the "nasty disease" in West Africa by stamping out outbreaks while they are small and not allowing them to become bigger.

"Ebola is a very nasty disease, and it's going to present us with some very unpleasant surprises I fear going forward," Anthony Banbury told UN Radio in Monrovia, Liberia. "And that's why we really need to strengthen our capabilities."

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