aug 1, 2013 - First-ever U.N. Emergency Health Mission
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To combat an unprecedented Ebola epidemic in West Africa–including nearly 30,000 people infected and 11,000 killed–the United Nations established its first-ever emergency health mission, the U.N. Mission for Ebola Emergency Response (UNMEER) in September 2014. The temporary mission provided financial, logistical and human resources to the hardest-hit countries of Guinea, Liberia and Sierra Leone, in an effort to bring the number of Ebola cases to zero. UNMEER closed in July 2015, turning oversight of the U.N. emergency Ebola response over to the World Health Organization (WHO).
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