Iowa Guard no longer needed in West Africa to help fight Ebola's spread
Source: Omaha World Herald
By Steve Liewer
The planned deployment in April of an Iowa National Guard unit to West Africa has been canceled, Guard officials announced Friday.
About 80 members of the 294th Area Support Medical Company, based in Washington, Iowa, had been notified last November that they would be mobilized as part of Operation United Assistance to help counter the spread of the Ebola virus, Col. Greg Hapgood said in a press release.
The company’s mission would have been caring for sick and injured U.S. military and civilian personnel involved in the counter-Ebola effort, Hapgood said.
The call-up was reduced to 40 soldiers last month, he said. Now the unit’s members have learned they won’t need to go at all, because the mission has been completed, Hapgood said. Mobilizations for National Guard units from Minnesota, Ohio and Texas also were scrubbed. Civilians will take on the role instead.
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The Ebola virus viewed through an electron microscope.
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Speaking to the BBC in her first broadcast interview, Ms Cafferkey, 39, admitted she had felt like "giving up" as her condition became critical.
She said she was now looking forward to returning to "normal life" and had no current plans to return to West Africa.
She is the second Briton to recover from Ebola during the current outbreak.
Link: http://www.bbc.com/news/uk-30967337
Thanks for the OP Omaha Steve.
