FAO Launches Ebola Awareness Campaign in West Africa

The U.N. Food and Agriculture Organization helps developing countries grow better crops and raise healthier livestock. It does so by training government field agents, who work in local communities. Now those same people are being enlisted to help stop the spread of Ebola in West Africa. The project is being kicked-off in Guinea, where the Ebola outbreak began last December. A two-year-old child was the first infected and first to die. The significance of that was not realized for...

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