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Mexico Joins Efforts to Combat African Ebola Outbreak

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October 27, 2014

The Foreign Affairs Ministry said Mexico will make a financial contribution toward equipping the contingent of doctors and healthcare workers that Cuba has sent to West Africa to fight the spread of the Ebola virus.

Mexico City, Mexico- Mexico is joining the international efforts to combat the outbreak of deadly Ebola virus in West Africa, the Foreign Affairs Ministry said on Friday.

In a statement, the ministry said Mexico will make a financial contribution toward equipping the contingent of doctors and healthcare workers that Cuba has sent to the African region to fight the spread of the disease.

"Aware that diseases know no boundaries and must be tackled in a coordinated fashion at the international level, the governments of Cuba and Mexico have decided to join forces to help fight the Ebola epidemic," the ministry said.

"Cuba has pledged a sizable contingent of healthcare professionals," the ministry said, "and Mexico, in turn, will participate with a financial contribution to the World Health Organization (WHO) to equip these brigades with specialized equipment."

The WHO will be in charge of ensuring the needed equipment "meets the highest technical standards, given the characteristics of the Ebola virus," the ministry added.

The Ebola outbreak has so far claimed 4,877 lives, more than half of them in Liberia. Sierra Leone and Guinea are also hard hit by the Ebola outbreak, according to the latest report released by the WHO.

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