WHO: Ebola outbreak could strike 20 000 people 2014-08-29 - TopicsExpress



          

WHO: Ebola outbreak could strike 20 000 people 2014-08-29 08:19 Geneva - The current Ebola outbreak in West Africa could infect more than 20 000 people, the World Health Organisation (WHO) said on Thursday in a bleak assessment of the deadly disease. The United Nations health agency issued a strategic plan to combat the outbreak in four West African nations where it said the actual number of cases could already be two to four times higher than the reported 3 069. The death toll stands at 1 552. This roadmap assumes that in many areas of intense transmission the actual number of cases may be 2-4 fold higher than that currently reported. It acknowledges that the aggregate case load of Ebola Virus Disease could exceed 20 000 over the course of this emergency, the WHO said.
Posted on: Fri, 29 Aug 2014 07:57:06 +0000

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