For Immediate Release February 11, 2015 FACT SHEET: Progress in Our Ebola Response at Home and Abroad

THE WHITE  HOUSE  PRESS OFFICE                                          FEB. 11, 2015

Fact sheet on the Ebola situation

"...Together with our international partners – and the people of the three nations themselves – we have bent the curve of the epidemic and placed it on a much improved trajectory. We have gone from over 1,000 new suspected, probable, and confirmed Ebola cases a week in October, to roughly 150 new confirmed weekly cases in the most recent reports.  Liberia has reported only a handful of new cases per week, a drop of well over 90 percent.  Significant declines also have been reported in Sierra Leone from the epidemic’s peak. Among the accomplishments in this response:..."

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Also see:

Most U.S. Troops will be withdrawn, posted yesterday, Feb. 11, 2015

http://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/us-withdrawing-most-troops-fighting-ebola-in-west-africa/2015/02/10/7b461f76-b189-11e4-bf39-5560f3918d4b_story.html