(VOVworld) – The US military will send more than one thousand troops to Liberia in the coming weeks as part of Washington's efforts to counter the Ebola outbreak in west Africa, the Pentagon said on Tuesday.

Liberia is the Ebola hardest hit country (Photo: Reuters)

About 700 soldiers from the US Army's 101st Airborne Division and another 700 military engineers are due to deploy to Monrovia around late October. The soldiers will join nearly 200 US military personnel already on the ground, part of a total contingent of 3 000 troops, who will help train health workers and set up hospitals and other facilities. The US’s plan was announced after the first Ebola case was detected in the US. The victim’s disease developed 4 days after returning from Liberia.