WHO: Ebola death rate is actually 70%

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Ebola Virus Disease in West Africa — The First 9 Months of the Epidemic and Forward Projections

WHO Ebola Response Team
September 23, 2014
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"Case fatality is among the most important topics for further investigation. Our estimates of case fatality are consistent in Guinea (70.7%), Liberia (72.3%), and Sierra Leone (69.0%) when estimates are derived with data only for patients with recorded definitive clinical outcomes (1737 patients)."


http://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMoa1411100?query=featured_homet=article