• Dr. Daouda Coulibaly, head of epidemiological monitoring service of the National Institute for Public Health of Côte d'Ivoire (INHP) in charge of Ebola, speaks during an interview in Abidjan last week. The country is taking the kind of aggressive anti-infection measures that its poorer, smaller western neighbors were slow to adopt. Hand-washing stations have appeared at the entrances of government buildings and office towers in Abidjan, the bustling economic capital. People have abandoned the traditional three-kiss greeting. | REUTERS
    Dr. Daouda Coulibaly, head of epidemiological monitoring service of the National Institute for Public Health of Côte d'Ivoire (INHP) in charge of Ebola, speaks during an interview in Abidjan last week. The country is taking the kind of aggressive anti-infection measures that its poorer, smaller western neighbors were slow to adopt. Hand-washing stations have appeared at the entrances of government buildings and office towers in Abidjan, the bustling economic capital. People have abandoned the traditional three-kiss greeting. | REUTERS

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ABIDJAN – The billboard depicts a masked health worker in a biohazard suit looming over a bed-ridden patient. Above them, bright red letters warn commuters on a busy Abidjan street that “The Ebola risk is always there”.

As Cote d’Ivoire campaigns to fend off an Ebola outbreak ravaging neighboring West African states, such grim reminders of the catastrophe unfolding across its western border are everywhere.

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