Outgoing UN Ebola Chief: Crisis Could End in 2015

The outgoing head of the U.N. mission to combat Ebola said Friday that the worst outbreak of the disease could be ended this year. Anthony Banbury, delivering his final address as head of the U.N. Mission for Ebola Emergency Response in Accra, Ghana, discussed significant progress in fighting Ebola since he was appointed in September, but he added that the crisis was far from over. The battle to conquer the disease "is going to go on for not just weeks but some...

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