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WHO Launches $100 Million Ebola Response Plan

Francesca Bessey |
August 1, 2014 | 3:06 p.m. PDT

Senior Opinion Editor

The United Nations World Health Organization announced Thursday that it is launching a $100 million response plan to combat the "unprecedented" spread of the Ebola virus in West Africa.

On Friday, WHO Director-General Margaret Chan met with presidents of the affected nations in Conakry, Guinea, to discuss the outbreak, which has killed 729 out of at least 1,323 people infected since February.

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"The scale of the Ebola outbreak, and the persistent threat it poses, requires WHO and Guinea, Liberia and Sierra Leone to take the response to a new level and this will require increased resources, in-country medical expertise, regional preparedness and coordination," Chan said in a statement.

The agency has also made an appeal to donor countries for clinical doctors and nurses, epidemiologists and logisticians.

 

Read more at Aljazeera America.

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