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THE GUARDIAN by Lisa O'Caroll Jan. 5, 2015
Liberia appears close to beating Ebola, with plans to reopen schools next month after the latest figures showed the infection rate has dwindled to just over four cases a day.
Liberian president, Ellen Johnson Sirleaf, announced that schools would reopen on 2 February. Photograph: John Moore/Getty Images
The US also plans to withdraw about half its 2,400 troops six months after the virus struck, claiming 3,400 lives.
Optimism has been increased by figures issued by the UN Mission for Ebola Emergency Response (Unmeer). They show the country had no confirmed Ebola cases on 31 December and just 91 cases in the past 21 days.
This compares starkly with the 979 cases in the past three weeks in neighbouring Sierra Leone where, Unmeer says, “transmission remains intense” but the infection rate is moving to a national average of just over three cases per day, it said on its Facebook page on Monday.
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The Pentagon’s mission against Ebola is quietly shrinking
THE WASHINGTON POST by Dan Lamothe Jan. 5, 2014
It has been more than three months since President Obama first ordered thousands of U.S. troops to West Africa to help stop the spread of the Ebola virus. That mission prompted everything from applause to outrage, but it has now moved to another phase: the quiet return home of troops.
Hundreds of U.S. service members have returned to the United States in recent days after serving as part of Joint Forces Command-United Assistance, the military unit that has built Ebola treatment units, shipped supplies over remote areas and provided a logistical framework to speed up the treatment of those infected.
After leaving Africa, the troops all spend 21 days in controlled monitoring at facilities the military has built at Joint Base Langley-Eustis, Va.; Fort Bliss and Fort Hood in Texas; Fort Bragg in North Carolina; Joint Base Lewis-McChord in Washington; and at Army bases in Vicenza, Italy, and Baumholder, Germany....
Lt. Col. Rob Gordon, the deputy operations officer with the 101st Airborne Division, said in an interview with The Leaf-Chronicle of Kentucky on Saturday that he and some of the other soldiers expected to be gone for six months, but returned early because contracting help from the Liberians allowed them to complete their work more quickly than thought.
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