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Posted: 09/09/2014 8:26 am EDT
DAKAR, Senegal (AP) — A surge in Ebola infections in Liberia is driving a spiraling outbreak in West Africa that is increasingly putting health workers at risk as they struggle to treat an overwhelming number of patients.
A higher proportion of health workers has been infected in this outbreak than in any previous one. The latest infection was of a doctor with the World Health Organization treating patients in Sierra Leone. The organization gave no details, but an American who became infected while working in West Africa landed in the U.S. Tuesday to get treatment at Emory University Hospital.
This is the second WHO staffer to be infected in Sierra Leone, and the U.N. health agency said Tuesday that after an investigation of the first case, staffers battling Ebola there now have better working conditions — including larger, more private quarters.
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"Doctors Without Borders, which has been involved in Ebola outbreaks for years, has never recorded a single infection among its international staff during an outbreak. So far in West Africa, where it is currently running most of the treatment clinics, six national staff have been infected, but an investigation suggested none of them was infected at work."
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/09/09/ebola-african-union_n_5789828.html?ir=WorldPost