UN To Deploy Ebola Mission As Death Toll Reaches 2,630

Publisher:
wochit
Publication Date:
18 September 2014
Tags:
West Africa, Aid and Assistance, Health and Medicine, International Organizations and Africa

The United Nations unveiled plans on Thursday for a special mission to combat the worst Ebola epidemic on record in West Africa, as the death toll hit 2,630 and France became the latest Western nation to step up its support. French President Francois Hollande announced the deployment of a military hospital to remote Forest Region of southeastern Guinea, where the outbreak was first detected in March.

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