Tuesday, October 28, 2014

WHO: World Ebola Cases Top 10,000

More than 10,000 people have been infected with Ebola and nearly half of them have died, according to figures released Saturday by the World Health Organization, as the outbreak continues to spread.
The Ebola epidemic in West Africa is the largest recorded outbreak of the disease, with a rapidly rising death toll in Guinea, Liberia, and Sierra Leone. There have also been cases in three other West African countries, Spain, and the United States.
The United Nations health agency said Saturday that the number of confirmed, probable, and suspected cases has reached 10,141. Of those cases, 4,922 people have died. Its figures show about 200 new cases since a report four days earlier.
Even those tolls are probably an underestimate, WHO has warned, as many in the hardest-hit countries have been unable or too frightened to seek medical care. A shortage of labs capable of handling potentially infected blood samples has also made it difficult to track the outbreak. For example, the latest numbers show no change in Liberia’s cases, suggesting they may be lagging behind reality.
On Thursday, authorities confirmed that the disease had spread to Mali, the sixth West African country affected, and a new case was confirmed in New York, in a doctor recently returned from Guinea.
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