Ebola Grips West Africa
VOA News
August 10, 2014
Liberia’s president is reassuring the country’s healthcare workers that more resources for the battle against Ebola are on the way.
Ellen Johnson Sirleaf met with healthcare workers Saturday in Monrovia. The workers were demanding more pay and better working conditions.
The president promised a quick response to the pay grievance, but asked for patience with other demands, including for more ambulances.
Liberia, Guinea and Sierra Leone have together lost nearly 1,000 lives to Ebola. Guinea announced Saturday it was closing its borders with Liberia and Sierra Leone.
One of the most recent fatalities was a Congolese nun, who contracted Ebola while working with Spanish Catholic missionaries in Liberia.
There have also been at least two Ebola deaths in Nigeria, which along with the other three countries, has declared a state of emergency to authorize additional funds to address the crisis.
The current Ebola outbreak in West Africa is on pace to infect more people than all previous outbreaks of the virus combined. The disease has no known cure or vaccine.
In response to the outbreak, the World Health Organization has declared the epidemic an international health emergency.
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