Ebola death toll hits new level in West Africa
- 9 years ago
The body count is rising in West Africa.
The scourge from Ebola shows no signs of stopping.
(SOUNDBITE) (English) WHO SPOKESMAN, GREGORY HARTL, SAYING:
"As of last night, WHO had recorded 19,340 cases of probable or confirmed of Ebola in the three-most affected countries, and 7,518 deaths in the three countries."
The epidemic - centered in Guinea, Liberia, and Sierra Leone - is the world's worst ever outbreak of the virus.
World Health Organization officials see some progress, but remain cautious.
(SOUNDBITE) (English) WHO SPOKESMAN, GREGORY HARTL, SAYING:
"There are certain areas which have not experienced cases in a number of weeks now, so we see that with the proper package of control measures and community engagement that we can reduce the cases to a very low number, if not zero - we're never going to say zero until we're actually at the end of the outbreak because we are not sure yet that we are tracing all contacts, and of course as long
The scourge from Ebola shows no signs of stopping.
(SOUNDBITE) (English) WHO SPOKESMAN, GREGORY HARTL, SAYING:
"As of last night, WHO had recorded 19,340 cases of probable or confirmed of Ebola in the three-most affected countries, and 7,518 deaths in the three countries."
The epidemic - centered in Guinea, Liberia, and Sierra Leone - is the world's worst ever outbreak of the virus.
World Health Organization officials see some progress, but remain cautious.
(SOUNDBITE) (English) WHO SPOKESMAN, GREGORY HARTL, SAYING:
"There are certain areas which have not experienced cases in a number of weeks now, so we see that with the proper package of control measures and community engagement that we can reduce the cases to a very low number, if not zero - we're never going to say zero until we're actually at the end of the outbreak because we are not sure yet that we are tracing all contacts, and of course as long