WHO Sends Ebola Response Team To Guinea-Bissau Border Neighboring Recent Cluster In Guinea District

U.N. News Centre: U.N. health agency responds to Ebola spike by deploying team on border of Guinea and Guinea-Bissau
“The World Health Organization (WHO) [Wednesday] reported ‘a substantial increase’ in the weekly total of new Ebola cases in Guinea and Sierra Leone and deployed a response team to the border with Guinea-Bissau because of its proximity to a recent cluster of cases in a neighboring Guinean prefecture…” (5/20).

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