A second batch of medical workers from China will be deployed to aid in the continuing fight against Ebola in Africa.
The back-up team, which almost doubled the first dispatch of 59 to Sierra Leone in September, will be comprised of 100 medical workers coming from the General Hospital of the Chengdu Military Region of the People's Liberation Army.
"It is larger than the first team and has more professionals from the infectious disease department," said Li Yong, the hospital's medical department director and team leader.
According to Li, 10 of the members had on-field experience during the 2003 SARS outbreak, while 14 assisted the United Nations with a peacekeeping mission in Lebanon.
The second batch of medical workers, dispatched to Liberia, is tasked to help build a hospital that can accommodate 60 beds. Two to three months is the scheduled stay of the aiding team.
The Ebola virus outbreak was initially announced on March 25, 2014. As of Oct. 8, there have been a total of 8,033 cases and 4,461 laboratory-confirmed cases.
The virus had taken the lives of 3,879 people, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and the World Health Organization.
The recent incidence of the infection with the virus was confirmed in Spain.