Liberia avoids mass hospital strike amid Ebola

MONROVIA, Liberia (AP) - Health workers reported for duty at Liberia's hospitals today, largely defying calls for a strike that could have further hampered the country's ability to respond to the worst Ebola outbreak in history. Nurses and other health workers - though not doctors - had threatened to strike if they did not receive the higher hazard pay they had been promised by the government. That would have made the already difficult care of Ebola patients even harder, since the bulk of the staff at clinics and hospitals is made of up of Liberia's nurses, physician assistants and community health workers.