Ebola Death Toll Rises in West Africa

A medical relief worker at an Ebola treatment center in Guinea says new patients continue to be admitted on a daily basis.Jonas Hagensen, of Doctors Without Borders, says many of the people receiving treatment at the center in Conakry know how they were exposed. "A lot of the people who come into our centers, they actually know how they had been infected because they had been in close contact with a person that they know had had Ebola." In a VOA interview, Hagensen said medical...

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