US President Barack Obama will try to “turn the tide” on the Ebola epidemic on Tuesday by ordering 3,000 US military personnel to west Africa to curtail its spread as China also dispatched more experts to the region.
The White House said Obama will travel to the Centres for Disease Control and Prevention in Atlanta —where US Ebola victims were treated — to make the announcement, meant to spur a global effort to tackle the outbreak that has already killed 2,400 people.
It comes as alarm grows that the worst-ever Ebola epidemic which spread through liberia, Sierra leone and Guinea before reaching Nigeria, is out of control.