Countries work to compensate for time lost in Ebola fight

The European Union urged the international community Monday, September 15, to boost aid to make up for “precious time” lost in the response to west Africa’s deadly Ebola outbreak, as the UN Security Council announced an emergency meeting on the crisis. The United Nations said last week that Ebola cases – which have killed more than 2,400 people in west Africa since it erupted earlier this year – are multiplying “faster than the capacity to manage them” and the president of Liberia, with more than half the victims, has warned the outbreak is destroying the country’s social fabric. The United Nations is appealing for $600 million (465 million euros) for supplies, with countries asked to send doctors, nurses, beds, trucks, equipment and other vehicles to the affected nations.

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