Ebola Outbreak in West Africa: Death Toll Rises to 1,427

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The World Health Organization yesterday announced that the current #Ebola virus outbreak in West African countries, which started in March 2014, has by the 20th of August, risen to 1,427 out of more than 2,600 cases.

#Liberia remains the worst-affected country with 624 deaths. Guinea has seen 406 people die while in Sierra Leone, 392 have succumbed to the haemorrhagic fever.

#Nigeria, meanwhile, had seen five people pass away by August 20.

The latest outbreak of the disease, first identified in 1976 in what was then Zaire but is now DR Congo, is the worst-ever and countries affected are struggling to contain the spread.
 

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