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West Africa: Companies Fill Gaps in Ebola Response

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All Africa                                                                                    Oct. 7, 2014

New York dateline article by Tami Hultman contains a description of what some companies are doing to help counter the Ebola outbreak in West Africa.

 

 
                      ArceloMittal employee in Liberia
                                Photo: Tami Hultman/AllAfrica

The story described contacts  with various companies and said:

"The prompt corporate response is the result of a months-long preparatory process to coordinate actions that began with aggressive programs information and education programs. Since March, when the Ebola threat re-emerged in Guinea, Sierra Leone and Liberia, after a relatively small rural outbreak earlier in the year, companies with operations in the area had been preparing for an emerging crisis."

http://allafrica.com/stories/201410072010.html?utm_source=October+8+2014+EN&utm_campaign=10%2F8%2F2014&utm_medium=email

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