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To End Ebola In 2015 Needs Foreign Aid–And Local Support

To End Ebola In 2015 Needs Foreign Aid–And Local Support

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Sierra Leone rang in the new year without the usual midnight festivities on its beaches in the steamy capital. Instead, the president urged the nation to stay at home, fast and pray that the plague of Ebola will finally end in West Africa.

“Our national New Year’s resolution for 2015 is surely we must defeat Ebola, and to snuff out this vile and ungodly disease,” says retired Maj. Alfred Palo Conteh, who is heading the country’s National Ebola Response Center.

Whether the world’s worst-ever Ebola outbreak can be wiped out in West Africa in 2015 is uncertain. To a large extent, it depends as much on locals changing their practices and beliefs as it does on continued international assistance.

 

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