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A resident of West Point neighborhood, which has been quarantined following an outbreak of Ebola, pushes a wheelbarrow full of food rations from the United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) in Monrovia August 28, 2014.
Ban called on the international community to provide $600 million needed for supplies in West Africa, where Ebola has killed more than 1,900 people since March and is 'spreading far faster than the response.'
'The goal is to stop Ebola transmission in affected countries within six to nine months, and to prevent the international spread of the virus,' Ban said. 'This can be done only if the urgent and necessary mobilization is done both in the affected countries and by the international community.'
He urged airlines and shipping companies not to cancel flights and docking in the affected countries.
'Banning flights and shipping services will not keep Ebola from spreading, but it will keep medical teams from reaching people most in need,' he told reporters.
(Reporting by Michelle Nichols; Editing by Jonathan Oatis)
