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The U.S. Centers for Disease Control is on high alert after the death toll from the Ebola outbreak neared 1,000.
The CDC upped the outbreak's alert to the highest level Wednesday. A Level 1 response increases the staff dedicated to the virus. The last time the CDC issued a Level 1 alert was in 2009 for the Swine Flu pandemic, CNN reported.
The outbreak has killed at least 932 people in four West African countries: Sierra Leone, Guinea, Liberia and Nigeria.
Liberia - which has seen 282 deaths since the March onset of the outbreak - declared a state of Emergency Wednesday.
'The government and people of Liberia require extraordinary measures for the very survival of our state and for the protection of the lives of our people,' President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf said in a statement.
The West African outbreak has tangentially affected out parts of the world, too.
Two American citizens who contracted the virus while helping Ebola victims in Liberia have been transported to Atlanta for treatment. Both were given an experimental serum at Emory University Hospital and appear to be improving.
Europe also has its first case of Ebola after Spain's Brother Miguel Pajares was flown to Madrid Thursday. The missionary also contacted the disease in Liberia and will be treated at Madrid's La Paz hospital.
Entities 0 Name: Liberia Count: 5 1 Name: CDC Count: 2 2 Name: West African Count: 2 3 Name: Madrid Count: 2 4 Name: Europe Count: 1 5 Name: Ellen Johnson Sirleaf Count: 1 6 Name: U.S. Centers for Disease Control Count: 1 7 Name: Guinea Count: 1 8 Name: Emory University Hospital Count: 1 9 Name: Sierra Leone Count: 1 10 Name: American Count: 1 11 Name: CNN Count: 1 12 Name: Brother Miguel Pajares Count: 1 13 Name: Atlanta Count: 1 14 Name: Nigeria Count: 1 15 Name: Spain Count: 1 Related 0 Url: http://ift.tt/1oaGbU6 Title: Ebola health worker: 'Sierra Leone is not able to deal with this outbreak' Description: Atlanta (CNN) -- One of the countries hard hit by the Ebola outbreak in West Africa is not able to cope, a health worker said, calling on the international community to step up support. Anja Wolz, emergency coordinator for Doctors Without Borders, spoke to CNN on Tuesday from an Ebola facility in Kailahun, Sierra Leone.