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Business News/ News / World/  Death toll in West Africa Ebola epidemic reaches 2,622: WHO
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Death toll in West Africa Ebola epidemic reaches 2,622: WHO

WHO says there are no signs yet of the epidemic slowing

The upward epidemic trend continues in the three countries that have widespread and intense transmission—Guinea, Liberia, and Sierra Leone,” the United Nations health agency said. Photo: AFPPremium
The upward epidemic trend continues in the three countries that have widespread and intense transmission—Guinea, Liberia, and Sierra Leone,” the United Nations health agency said. Photo: AFP

London: At least 2,622 people have died in the worst outbreak of Ebola virus in history, which has so far infected at least 5,335 people in West Africa, the World Health Organization (WHO) said on Thursday.

In an update on the epidemic, which is raging through Guinea, Sierra Leone and Liberia and has spread into Nigeria and Senegal, the WHO said there were no signs yet of it slowing.

“The upward epidemic trend continues in the three countries that have widespread and intense transmission—Guinea, Liberia, and Sierra Leone," the United Nations health agency said.

It added that a surge in Ebola in Liberia is being driven primarily by a continued increase in the number of cases reported in the capital, Monrovia.

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Published: 18 Sep 2014, 06:51 PM IST
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