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How Riders Liberia uses motorcycle transportation to save lives and prevent disease outbreaks In rural Maryland, Liberia in the southeast corner of the country, a man sits on his motorbike. He squints into the sun and scans the horizon.  He is wearing a backpack and carrying a cell phone. A box that looks like a …

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CDC and partners supported an innovative program using motorcycle couriers to get samples quickly and safely to labs. When infectious diseases strike, getting a fast and accurate laboratory diagnosis is critical to stopping an outbreak from becoming a widespread epidemic. Before the West Africa Ebola epidemic, Liberia had no system in place for getting clinical …

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ATLANTA, June 22, 2017 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ — What was it like at ground zero of the worst outbreak of Ebola in history? This month, CDC’s David J. Sencer Museum will be the first U.S. museum to offer an overview of the devastating viral outbreak that killed more than 11,000 people in West Africa. The exhibition, EBOLA: People + Public Health + …

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Liberia: Expanding Health Access with Connected Transport Services In the 15 years that have passed since Liberia emerged from a civil war, the country still is recovering from the near total destruction of its infrastructure. Roads need repairs, schools need upgrades, and the health system is trying to recover from losing 242 of its 293 …

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ATLANTA, June 22, 2017 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ — What was it like at ground zero of the worst outbreak of Ebola in history? This month, CDC’s David J. Sencer Museum will be the first U.S. museum to offer an overview of the devastating viral outbreak that killed more than 11,000 people in West Africa. The exhibition, EBOLA: People + Public Health + …

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