Africa's
Ebola outbreak not yet run its course: U.N. envoy
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[July 13, 2015]
CAPE TOWN (Reuters) - Africa's Ebola
outbreak has not run its course and around 30 people are still getting
infected each week, the United Nations' special envoy for the deadly
disease, David Nabarro, said on Monday.
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Under normal circumstances, such an infection rate would be
considered "a major, major outbreak," he said.
"Probably about one third of these people are not coming from the
contact list, which means they are surprise cases, and that’s a big
worry," Nabarro told a conference organized by the World Health
Organization in Cape Town.
The worst recorded outbreak of Ebola has already killed more than
11,200 people across West Africa.
Infection rates are down from the peak of the crisis. But Liberia
reported a 17-year-old boy tested positive for the virus on June 30
- almost two months after the country was declared free of Ebola.
Liberia, the country worst hit by the virus, had been hailed as an
example for neighboring Guinea and Sierra Leone, which are also
struggling to stop the spread.
(Reporting by Wendell Roelf; Writing by Ed Stoddard; Editing by
Andrew Heavens)
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