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Cameron calls on EU to double Ebola funding

David Cameron has called for EU leaders to double their funding in the fight against Ebola to £800 million.

It comes after one of the doctors who discovered the virus, Professor Peter Piot, said the rest of Europe was not doing enough to tackle the epidemic.

Downing Street said the current total contribution from the EU was just £400 million.

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Liberia football stadium converted into Ebola centre

A football stadium in the Liberian capital Monrovia will be converted to house two large Ebola treatment units, Fifa has announced.

The football federation said it had teamed up with the World Health Organisation and the United Nations to transform the Antoinette Tubman Stadium for use in the fight against the epidemic.

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The stadium, which FIFA donated to Liberia's Football Association, would "serve as the site for two urgently needed large-scale Ebola treatment units," it said.

"Today we can use the power of football to combat the Ebola epidemic," Fifa president Sepp Blatter said.

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