UK to boost funding for fight against Ebola
It urges fellow European countries to do more to help with the health crisis in West African countries
Brussels
WITH the World Health Organization warning that Ebola is still spreading "exponentially" in the hardest hit countries of West Africa, Britain on Thursday indicated it would sharply increase its funding to fight the disease and pushed fellow European countries that have been less willing to contribute to the battle against a virus that has already killed nearly 5,000 Africans.
The scale of the health crisis pushed Ebola to the centre of a gathering of Euro…
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