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Liberian Rubber Farm Becomes Sanctuary Against Ebola
Firestone Acted Early to Keep Virus in Check Within Its Confines

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By DREW HINSHAW CONNECT
Updated Oct. 6, 2014 7:08 p.m. ET
FIRESTONE, Liberia—As Ebola exploded here this year, a rubber farm embarked on a crash course on how to tame an epidemic that has killed thousands of people and derailed governments across West Africa.

One morning in March, when the first case arrived at the Liberian unit of Japan’s Bridgestone Corp., managers sat around a rubber-tree table and googled “Ebola,” said Ed Garcia, president of Firestone Natural Rubber Company LLC. Then they built two Ebola isolation clinics, using shipping containers and plastic wrap. They...

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