MONROVIA, Liberia — Liberia's president called Wednesday on the world to do more to end a spiraling Ebola outbreak, saying "Liberia cannot defeat Ebola alone."
President Barrack Obama announced Tuesday that he will order 3,000 military personnel to West Africa to help contain the dreaded disease, which has killed at least 2,400 people. The U.S. is also planning on delivering 17 treatment centers with 100 beds each to Liberia, which has been hardest hit by the outbreak.
President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf on Wednesday called that commitment significant but said she hopes it will only be the beginning.
"We hope this decision by the United States will spur the rest of the international community into action," she said in a written statement read out by Information Minister Lewis Brown at a news conference. "This disease is not simply a Liberian or West African problem. The entire community of nations has a stake in ending this crisis."
An Ebola outbreak in West Africa has also touched Guinea, Sierra Leone, Senegal and Nigeria, and is believed to have sickened nearly 5,000 people.
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