U.N.: Stop Ebola virus now, or never
By Connie Cass
Dispatch.com
Saturday October 11, 2014
U.S. Marines scrambled to add Ebola treatment beds in Liberia yesterday, while the U.S. and Britain readied new disease screenings for passengers arriving at their airports from west Africa. U.S. lawmakers agreed to use $750 million in war funds to fight Ebola as doctors tried out experimental drugs against the deadly sickness.
The U.N. said nations must work together — and fast — or “the world will have to live with the Ebola virus forever.”
The death toll in west Africa passed 4,000 in the World Health Organization’s count of confirmed and suspected Ebola cases.
As worry ricocheted around the globe, medical records underscored questions about the United States’ front-line defenses. The Dallas hospital that initially missed the nation’s first Ebola diagnosis put the Liberian man through a battery of tests and CT scans for appendicitis, stroke and other serious ailments before sending him home, the records show.
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