Ebola death toll passes 1,900 -WHO

The World Health Organisation says more than 1,900 people
have now died in West Africa’s Ebola outbreak.
WHO head Margaret Chan said there were 3,500 confirmed
or probable cases in Guinea, Sierra Leone and Liberia.
“The outbreaks are racing ahead of the control efforts in
these countries,” she said.
On Thursday the WHO is holding a meeting to examine the
most promising treatments and to discuss how to fast track
their testing and production.
Disease control experts, medical researchers, officials from
affected countries, and specialists in medical ethics will all
be represented at the meeting in Geneva.
The WHO has previously warned that more than 20,000
people could be infected before the outbreak of the virus is
brought under control.
Chan described the outbreak as “the largest and most severe
and most complex we have ever seen”.
“No one, even outbreak responders with experience dating
back to 1976, to 1995, people that were directly involved
with those outbreaks, none of them have ever seen anything
like it,” she said.
Forty per cent of the deaths have occurred in three weeks
leading up to September 3, the WHO says.