Update - French Volunteer İnfected With Ebola İn Liberia

A French volunteer infected with the Ebola virus is to be hospitalized at a military hospital in France, the French health ministry has said.



The volunteer, who was working for the non-governmental organization Medecins Sans Frontieres in Liberia, was affected by the Ebola virus on Tuesday and put in quarantine in the Liberian capital of Monrovia.



She is to be transferred to the Begin military hospital in the commune of Val-de-Marne, one of nine French hospitals placed on alert since the beginning of August.



The World Health Organization has called for more medics to be deployed to help combat the virus after the death toll reached 2,453, with 4,963 cases of infections being confirmed in West Africa.



Medical staff sought



The high infection rate among health workers has made it difficult to recruit the foreign medical staff needed to combat the epidemic.



Ebola first appeared in 1976 in Sudan and the Democratic Republic of Congo.



It can be transmitted to humans from wild animals and also spreads through contact with the body fluids of an infected person.



U.S. President Barack Obama outlined plans for dealing with Ebola during a visit to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in Atlanta on Tuesday.



They include sending 3,000 troops to Liberia to set up a joint force command, a staging base in Senegal and additional treatment units across West Africa.



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