Liberia football ground converted into Ebola treatment centre
A football stadium in the Liberian capital Monrovia will be converted to house two large Ebola treatment units, Fifa has announced.
The football federation said it had teamed up with the World Health Organisation and the United Nations to transform the Antoinette Tubman Stadium for use in the fight against the epidemic.
William Pooley, the British nurse who survived Ebola, has hinted he could return to the country where he contracted the deadly virus to help fight the outbreak.
In an interview with the Guardian, the 29-year-old volunteer nurse from Suffolk said, "It's the least I could do to go back and return the favour to some other people, even just for a little while."
The World Health Organisation announced that the death toll from the Ebola outbreak has now risen to at least 2,296 out of 4,293 cases.
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- 12 September 2014 at 3:54am
An American aid worker infected with the Ebola virus has responded well to aggressive treatment in the past week, his doctors said on Thursday.
Dr Rick Sacra, who was infected with the virus while working at a hospital in Liberia, received blood transfusions from Dr Kent Brantly, a close friend, shortly after arriving at the Nebraska Medical Center in the United States last Friday.
Brantly, 33, is one of the first two Americans who survived Ebola after receiving treatment in Atlanta last month.
"It really meant a lot to us that he was willing to give that donation so quickly after his own recovery", Sacra's wife, Debbie, said.
Last updated Fri 12 Sep 2014
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