A second detachment of US forces set to battle the deadly Ebola virus have arrived in Liberia. They land as a weekend lockdown in Sierra Leone to confine the outbreak resulted in finding at least 200 people infected or dead.
The second deployment of 3,000 troops is set to train local employees and establish institutions to help Liberia and other African nations deal with the epidemic that has already left 2,600 people dead in West Africa alone.
“Some American troops came soon [sic] this morning. They arrived with tactical jeeps,” a source at Roberts International Airport, near Monrovia, told AFP, without giving more precise data on the number of soldiers…
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