In Cuba, doctors and nurses are heeding the call for help to fight Ebola.
The communist island nation says it's sending 165 healthcare workers to West Africa, where the worst outbreak of the disease in history is raging.
It's said to be the biggest commitment of personnel from any one country against the current outbreak.
In Havana, Cubans welcome the news and seemed to say the move was part of the national character.
(SOUNDBITE) (Spanish) GEORGINA PEREZ SAYING:
"Aside from being a third-world country, always, absolutely always, even though we have few resources, it has always been the step in the right direction and has always been good to help; to help any person in the world, in whatever country in the world that needs help. Because in the end, we're all affected."
(SOUNDBITE) (Spanish) DOCTOR ANA MARIA TELLERIAS SAYING:
"We've always been taught to be caring, to face all of these things in a correct way, and above all else with a very profe
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