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South Korea said Sunday that its 24-member Ebola response team has completed a three-month mission to treat patients in Ebola-hit Sierra Leone.
South Korea sent a team of doctors and nurses in three batches between late December and March to join the global community's move to fight the highly contagious disease in West Africa.
South Korea's foreign ministry said that the mission has been officially completed as the final group of medical staff members on Sunday were released after a 21-day-long quarantine.
"The government has decided to publish a white paper on their experiences and to draw up follow-up measures to cope with overseas emergency disaster situations," the ministry said in a statement.
The Ebola virus is estimated to have killed more than 10,000 people since the outbreak in December 2013, according to the World Health Organization.
The World Bank said that the disease is estimated to have reduced the combined gross domestic product of three countries in West Africa -- Sierra Leone, Guinea and Liberia -- by at least 12 percent. (Yonhap)
