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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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British Ebola nurse may return to Africa 'within weeks'

The British nurse who survived Ebola has hinted he could return to the country where he contracted the deadly virus within "a few weeks".

William Pooley pictured in London before he was discharged from the Royal Free Hospital. Credit: PA

William Pooley was flown from Sierra Leone to the UK for treatment and was given the experimental drug ZMapp, before being given the all-clear and discharged.

Speaking to the BBC, Mr Pooley said:

I'm quite impatient to get back doing what I know needs to done.

And I feel like I've left things undone, having left prematurely. And I know there's a lot of work to do out there, and we need to get out there and do it.

– William Pooley

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