EBOLA OUTBREAK: AFRICA SETS UP $28.5M CRISIS FUND (STA BREAKING NEWS and ARCHIVES)

by STANews , Saturday, November 08, 2014, 11:13

Top African business leaders have established an emergency fund to help countries hit by the Ebola outbreak.

A pledging meeting in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, raised $28.5m to deploy at least 1,000 health workers to Guinea, Sierra Leone and Liberia.

Experts say that if the disease is to be speedily contained, it needs to be tackled in these three countries.

Nearly 5,000 people out of about 14,000 cases have been killed by the virus, most of them in Liberia.

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