Ebola cases could grow by thousands per week if current spread continues: WHO

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Ebola cases could grow by thousands per week if current spread continues: WHO

Helen Branswell, The Canadian Press

TORONTO - The World Health Organization is warning that the speed of spread in West Africa's raging Ebola outbreak could escalate in the coming weeks, with thousands of new cases a week by early October.

With the current rate of growth in the hundreds of new cases per week and no easing of the rate of transmission, a jump into the quadruple digits seems to be where this unprecedented outbreak is heading, an epidemiologist working in the office of WHO Director General Margaret Chan said Friday.

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2014 West Africa Ebola virus outbreak - Wikipedia the free encyclopedia


A majority of cases have occurred in the past month and a half.

 

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Total number of probable, confirmed, and suspected cases in Guinea, Liberia, and Sierra Leone as at 5 September 2014