For remote Liberian community, Ebola aid from Minnesota
Health workers at Doctors Without Borders (MSF), work in the high-risk area of the ELWA 3 Ebola treatment center on October 16, 2014 in Paynesville, Liberia. The World Health Organization says that more than 4,500 people have died due to the Ebola epidemic in West Africa with a mortality rate for the disease at about 70 percent.
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A Minneapolis-based non-profit is setting up an Ebola treatment unit in a remote area of Liberia near the border with Cote d'Ivoire.
The American Refugee Committee is using federal funds for the project, which aims to prevent the spread of the disease.
Heather Buessler, health technical advisor with the non-profit, is working to set up the treatment center in the rural community of Fish Town. She spoke with Tom Crann from Liberia.
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