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April 9, 2014

West Africa Faces Unprecedented Ebola Outbreak 
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West Africa is grappling with a deadly and unprecedented outbreak of
Ebola. At least 100 people have died in Guinea and 10 in Liberia over
the past several weeks. It is the first Ebola outbreak to ever hit the
West Africa region. Speaking in Geneva, Keija Fukuda of the World Health
Organization said the outbreak is one of the "most challenging ever
faced."

Keija Fukuda: "This is one of the most challenging Ebola outbreaks that
we have ever faced. And right now we have documented cases both in
Guinea and in Liberia. And the reasons why this is one of the most
challenging outbreaks is that, first, we see a wide geographic
dispersion of cases. So this has come in from a number of districts as
well as a large city in Guinea, Conakry."

 

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