Pawel Gaul/iStockphoto/Thinkstock(MONROVIA, Liberia) — The World Health Organization provided a new update on Wednesday, confirming that the number of deaths in the West Africa Ebola outbreak is at 3,338, with nearly 4,000 more sickened.
The disease has spread to five countries — Guinea, Liberia, Nigeria, Senegal and Sierra Leone — infecting 7,178 people. The report also notes that 39 percent of the total number of cases confirmed, probable or suspected in Guinea, Liberia and Sierra Leone, the three most heavily impacted nations, have been identified within the last three weeks. That figure echoes foreboding predictions from numerous experts that if action isn’t taken, the disease will only continue to spread.
The WHO warns that while the U.S. and other nations have sent health care workers and other forms of support, “there are few signs yet that the…epidemic in West Africa is being brought under control.” The agency notes that “transmission remains persistent and widespread in Guinea, Liberia and Sierra Leone, with strong evidence of increasing case incidence in several districts.”
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