Systems in Liberia Contributing To Ebola’s Spread

Agence France-Presse: Backstory of U.S. Ebola victim exposes Liberia failings
“The story of how the first Ebola victim diagnosed in the U.S. caught the disease has exposed the multiple failings in his home country of Liberia, where poverty, an overloaded health care system and an unresponsive government have deepened the crisis…” (Bastien/Cooper, 10/5).

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