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One-hundred members of the Special-Purpose Marine Air-Ground Task Force Crisis Response Africa are deploying to West Africa to help contain the spread of Ebola, a Pentagon spokesperson said Wednesday (October 8).
"I can announce today that 100 personnel from the Special Marine Air-Ground Task Force Crisis Response Africa are deploying from Moron, Spain to Dakar, Senegal with onward movement to Monrovia to provide interim resupply and transportation support until army units arrive later this month to assume that longer-term mission," Press Secretary Rear Adm. John Kirby said at a press briefing at the Pentagon.
The U.S. military is ramping up its response to the Ebola outbreak in West Africa, where it has already killed more than 3,400 people in Liberia, Sierra Leone and Guinea. Concern is growing that the virus could spread to other parts of the world.
The United States has 348 military personnel in Liberia and Senegal working o
