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Peace Corps Pulls Out

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UPDATED: Thursday, July 31, 2014 19:14
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WASHINGTON, July 30 (Reuters) - The U.S. Peace Corps said on Wednesday it was pulling all 340 volunteers from Liberia, Sierra Leone and Guinea because of the spreading Ebola virus that has killed 672 people in the three countries since February.

http://news.msn.com/us/us-peace-corps-withdrawing-volunteers-due-to-eb
ola-virus?ocid=ansnews11

I do not remember aid workers being pulled from a region other than because of unruly group’s endangering the workers. This is a real problem that it is a disease behind the withdrawal. This may get much more serious before they get a handle on it. If they get a handle on it.

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