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Published September 29, 2014
U.S. military personnel have begun constructing tent hospitals and other facilities to help fight the Ebola epidemic in West Africa, though experts warn that they may be too late to prevent the outbreak from killing thousands more.
The Wall Street Journal reports that troops from the Navy's 133rd Mobile Construction Battalion began building the first of a dozen planned hospitals in a field outside the main airport in Liberia, one of three countries along with Sierra Leone and Guinea that has been hit the hardest by the epidemic.
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"There is no argument the disease is out in front of the response," Ken Isaacs, vice president of programs and government relations for the relief organization Samaritan's Purse, told the paper. "Where we are today is where we should have been 60 to 90 days ago."
http://www.foxnews.com/health/2014/...es-to-halt-spread-ebola-virus-in-west-africa/
U.S. military personnel have begun constructing tent hospitals and other facilities to help fight the Ebola epidemic in West Africa, though experts warn that they may be too late to prevent the outbreak from killing thousands more.
The Wall Street Journal reports that troops from the Navy's 133rd Mobile Construction Battalion began building the first of a dozen planned hospitals in a field outside the main airport in Liberia, one of three countries along with Sierra Leone and Guinea that has been hit the hardest by the epidemic.
...
"There is no argument the disease is out in front of the response," Ken Isaacs, vice president of programs and government relations for the relief organization Samaritan's Purse, told the paper. "Where we are today is where we should have been 60 to 90 days ago."
http://www.foxnews.com/health/2014/...es-to-halt-spread-ebola-virus-in-west-africa/