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Monday, August 11, 2014

NJ teen evacuated from Liberian school shut by Ebola crisis

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Walter O'Brien | NJ.com
on August 11, 2014 at 12:10 PM
[link to www.nj.com]

WHARTON — A Morris County teen had just arrived back at the More Than Me girl's academy in Monrovia, Liberia in West Africa for a summer volunteering trip when the deadly Ebola outbreak forced the temporary closing of the school and her evacuation back to her New Jersey home....

When she arrived in Monrovia, there was already talk about sending volunteers home becasuse of the Ebola epidemic, but she said panic didn't set in until July 25. She was back in New Jersey by the July 30.

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When she first found out the summer program would be canceled she thought she would stay in Monrovia to do other work for the school.

"But then all the volunteers were evacuated," she said. "First they bought me a ticket for Friday, then canceled it and made it for Wednesday."

Schroeder said that the international airport was crowded and chaotic while so many people were trying to get out of the country at once for the ebola exodus...http://www.nj.com/morris/index.ssf/2014/08/wharton_teen_evacuated_from_liberian_girls_school_for_ebola_scare.html?