Health workers remove the body of Prince Nyentee, a 29-year-old man whom local residents said died of Ebola virus in Monrovia (September 11, 2014) The ongoing Ebola crisis in West Africa is an absolutely horrifying humanitarian catastrophe, and one that has the potential to become much, much worse. But while the Western response has been "dangerously inadequate" to date, it wouldn't cost much to turn things around: The United Nations says that it needs $1 billion to contain the disaster. There are lots of ways to put that amount of money in context, but here's a particularly salient one.
As U.s. Prepares To Spend $10 Billion A Year On Iraq, U.n. Begs For $1 Billion To Fight Ebola
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Wed, 09/17/2014 - 8:15am
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