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Empty Ebola beds in Liberia pose riddle for health workers

MONROVIA/ABIDJAN (Reuters) - Health workers in Liberia are struggling to tell whether a growing number of empty beds at Ebola treatment centres is a sign that the country's ramped up response to the disease is working - or just a lull in the epidemic.

U.S. to train Liberian armed forces to help tackle Ebola crisis

MONROVIA/FREETOWN (Reuters) - The United States said on Friday it would train Liberia's security forces to assist in isolation operations to tackle an Ebola epidemic ravaging the West African nation, after a boy was killed when soldiers opened fire on a protest last month.

U.S. missionary with Ebola en route to Nebraska for treatment

OMAHA Nebraska/MONROVIA (Reuters) - A third U.S. health missionary infected with the deadly Ebola virus in Liberia left the West African country's capital on Thursday in a plane headed for the Nebraska Medical Center in Omaha, the Christian organization SIM USA said.

West African healthcare systems reel as Ebola toll hits 932

MONROVIA/DAKAR (Reuters) - Health workers in West Africa appealed on Wednesday for urgent help in controlling the world's worst Ebola outbreak as the death toll climbed to 932 and Liberia declared a state of emergency.

In Liberia's capital, fear of Ebola hampers official response

MONROVIA (Reuters) - Health workers turned up in Monrovia's Clara Town district on Sunday to remove two bodies of possible victims of the Ebola virus, four days after they dropped dead there when nobody would take them to hospital.

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