News outlets report on Liberia’s continuing shortage of health care workers and increasing threats to food security as Ebola continues to spread.

Reuters: Liberia facing massive shortage of foreign help against Ebola: U.N.
“Liberia, the West African state hardest-hit by the worst Ebola outbreak in history, remains gravely short of foreign health care workers despite repeated pleas for help, a senior U.N. official said on Tuesday. … Antonio Vigilante, head of the U.N. Development Programme in Liberia, said 40,000 community workers needed to be trained and the country still had far too few foreign experts…” (Miles/Nebehay, 9/23).

VOA News: Ebola Weakens Liberia Food Security
“…Fourteen of the [Liberia’s] 15 counties have been affected. Some of the first cases in Liberia were reported in northern Lofa County. The U.N. Food and Agriculture Organization said the outbreak has had a big effect on food security there…” (DeCapua, 9/23).