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A Doctors Without Borders (MSF), staffer
supervises as construction workers complete the new MSF Ebola treatment centre
on August 17, 2014 near Monrovia, Liberia. The facility initially has 120 beds,
making it the largest such centre for Ebola treatment and isolation in history
and MSF plans to expand it to a 350-bed capacity. Tents, beds and much of the
medical supplies at the centre were provided by UNICEF. | John Moore via Getty
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French volunteer working for Medecins Sans Frontieres in Liberia has contracted
the Ebola virus, the medical charity said in a statement on Wednesday, Reuters
reports.
The
volunteer, the first French national to catch the disease in the current outbreak,
was put in quarantine on Sept. 16 when the first symptoms of the illness
appeared.
She
will be evacuated to a specialized treatment center in France.
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