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New Ebola outbreak, Netherlands sending 50 laboratory technicians
Friday, December 12th, 2014
There is a new Ebola outbreak in eastern Sierra Leone. In the province of Kono in the past two weeks, nearly a hundred bodies found infected.
Netherlands sends about 50 laboratory technicians to the Ebola areas.
It is an outbreak in a very remote area. Roeland Monasch, Director of UNICEF in Sierra Leone, spoke with BNR about the situation there. He said Wednesday he visited the area. "It involves several small villages, where people often know nothing of the disease. Because they perform ritual washing dead bodies, more people get infected. The local hospital can not handle the crowds. The hospital is actually the center of the become infected themselves. "
The Netherlands are sending approximately fifty laboratory workers to Liberia and Sierra Leone. They go there to help in the fight against Ebola. The specialized laboratory technicians do that in mobile laboratories the Netherlands paid for and they were transported by the navy ship Karel Doorman to the West African countries.
BNR
Friday, December 12th, 2014
There is a new Ebola outbreak in eastern Sierra Leone. In the province of Kono in the past two weeks, nearly a hundred bodies found infected.
Netherlands sends about 50 laboratory technicians to the Ebola areas.
It is an outbreak in a very remote area. Roeland Monasch, Director of UNICEF in Sierra Leone, spoke with BNR about the situation there. He said Wednesday he visited the area. "It involves several small villages, where people often know nothing of the disease. Because they perform ritual washing dead bodies, more people get infected. The local hospital can not handle the crowds. The hospital is actually the center of the become infected themselves. "
The Netherlands are sending approximately fifty laboratory workers to Liberia and Sierra Leone. They go there to help in the fight against Ebola. The specialized laboratory technicians do that in mobile laboratories the Netherlands paid for and they were transported by the navy ship Karel Doorman to the West African countries.
BNR