Ebola death toll passes 1,900, says WHO [View all]

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"The outbreaks are racing ahead of the control efforts in these countries," WHO chief Margaret Chan said.

The WHO is meeting on Thursday to examine the most promising treatments and to discuss how to fast-track testing and production.....

....More than 40% of the deaths have occurred in three weeks leading up to 3 September, the WHO says, indicating that the epidemic is fast outpacing efforts to control it.

http://www.bbc.com/news/world-africa-29055041


In the meantime, 2 more cases have turned up in Port Harcourt, Nigeria. Edited to correct: this wasn't where the nurse ran away to. Apparently a doctor there secretly treated a diplomat who was infected by a traveler (Patrick Sawyer) in Lagos.


And Thai sailors are refusing to ship rice to West Africa for fear, causing prices to collapse in Thailand, and shortages in West Africa.