Ebola Death Toll In West Africa Passes 3,000: WHO
>3,000
DAKAR, Sept 26 (Reuters) - The death toll from an outbreak of Ebola in
West Africa has risen to at least 3,091 out of 6,574 probable,
suspected and confirmed cases, the World Health Organization said on
Friday.
Liberia has recorded 1,830 deaths, around
three times as many as in either Guinea or Sierra Leone, the two other
most affected countries, according to WHO data received up to Sept.
23.
An outbreak that began in a remote corner of
Guinea has taken hold of much of neighboring Liberia and Sierra Leone,
prompting warnings that tens of thousands of people may die from the
worst outbreak of the disease on record.
The WHO
update said Liberia had reported six confirmed cases of Ebola and four
deaths in the Grand Cru district, which is near the border with Ivory
Coast and had not previously recorded any cases of Ebola.
