Thursday 16 October 2014

Modest response by donors thus far to Ebola crisis

FILE- In this Sept. 3, 2014, file photo, a health worker, left, uses a thermometer on a man outside the Youyi government buildings, part of measures to stem the spread of the Ebola virus, in Freetown, Sierra Leone. The Ebola crisis is not prompting as large of a response from donors as other recent disasters. The American Red Cross, for example, received $2.8 million from Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen, but only about $100,000 in Ebola-related gifts from other donors. By comparison, the Red Cross received more than $85 million in response to Typhoon Haiyan. (AP Photo/Michael Duff, File) NEW YORK (AP) — Individual Americans, rich or not, donated generously in response to many recent international disasters, including the 2010 earthquake in Haiti and last year's Typhoon Haiyan in the Philippines. The response to the Ebola epidemic is far less robust, and experts are wondering why.




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