Julia and guests LaBelle Nambangi and Wynfred Russell discuss the local impacts of Ebola, as well as global efforts to battle the epidemic in West Africa. Nambangi is with the Minnesota Task Force Against Ebola. Russell, a health care advocate and the executive director of African Career, Education & Resource, Inc., recently returned from a week-long trip to Liberia. The purpose of his trip was to conduct a research assessment to inform the possible deployment of an Ebola response team. [Audio below]
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- Twin Cities' West African community confronts misconceptions after first U.S. Ebola case diagnosed (Ibrahim Hirsi, MinnPost, 2014)
- Minnesota African Taskforce Against Ebola created (Issa Mansaray, Minnesota Spokesman-Recorder, 2014)
- University of Minnesota officials monitor Ebola outbreak in West Africa (Haley Hansen, The Minnesota Daily, 2014)
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Julia and guests LaBelle Nambangi and Wynfred Russell discuss the local impacts of Ebola, as well as global efforts to battle the epidemic in West Africa. Nambangi is with the Minnesota Task Force Against Ebola. Russell, a health care advocate and the executive director of African Career, Education & Resource, Inc., recently returned from a week-long trip to Liberia. The purpose of his trip was to conduct a research assessment to inform the possible deployment of an Ebola response team. [Audio below]
Related stories:
- VIDEO: Rally at Minnesota state capitol urges nurses to file OSHA complaints over Ebola unpreparedness (Howard Kling, Workday Minnesota, 2014)
- Minnesota Africans tackle Ebola (Tom Gitaa, Mshale, 2014)
- Minnesota groups set up Ebola aid, outreach (Sarah Connor, The Minnesota Daily, 2014)
- Twin Cities' West African community confronts misconceptions after first U.S. Ebola case diagnosed (Ibrahim Hirsi, MinnPost, 2014)
- Minnesota African Taskforce Against Ebola created (Issa Mansaray, Minnesota Spokesman-Recorder, 2014)
- University of Minnesota officials monitor Ebola outbreak in West Africa (Haley Hansen, The Minnesota Daily, 2014)
- Minnesota state officials scramble to calm Ebola fears (Issa Mansaray, Minnesota Spokesman-Recorder, 2014)
- Reflections of New Minnesotans: The Ebola outbreak and its implications, for Liberia and Minnesota (Nekessa Opoti, AM950, 2014)