UN: Ebola Cases Could Eventually Reach 20,000

Publisher:
Wochit
Publication Date:
28 August 2014
Tags:
West Africa, Aid and Assistance, Health and Medicine, International Organizations and Africa

The World Health Organization says the Ebola outbreak in West Africa eventually could exceed 20,000 cases, more than 6 times as many as doctors know about now. The agency on Thursday published new figures saying that 1,552 people have died from the killer virus from among the 3,069 cases reported so far in Liberia, Sierra Leone, Guinea and Nigeria. The U.N.

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