Ebola workers reportedly attacked again in Guinea.

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On Tuesday, September 23, 2014, Husainou A Waggeh <
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> Ebola death rates 70% - WHO study
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> Last updated 1 hour ago
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> By Helen Briggs
>
> Health editor, BBC News website
> [image: A World Health Organisation worker, (centre) trains nurses to use
> Ebola protective gear in Freetown, Sierra Leone (18 September 2014)]
>
> New figures suggest 70% of those infected with Ebola in West Africa have
> died, higher than previously reported, says the World Health Organization.
>
> Ebola infections will treble to 20,000 by November if efforts to tackle
> the outbreak are not stepped up, the UN agency has warned.
>
> In the worst case scenario, cases in two nations could reach 1.4 million
> in January, according to a US estimate.
>
> Experts said the US numbers were ``somewhat pessimistic''.
>
> The world's largest outbreak of Ebola has caused 2,800 deaths so far,
> mainly in Guinea, Liberia and Sierra Leone.
>
> Outbreaks in Senegal and Nigeria were "pretty much contained", said the
> WHO.
>
> In other developments:
>
> • More than 160 NHS staff have volunteered for UK efforts to help in the
> outbreak.
>
> • Chief medical officer for England, Prof Dame Sally Davies, confirmed
> that the British nurse who survived Ebola, William Pooley, has volunteered
> to give blood that could help treat patients.
>
> • The Sierra Leone army has sealed off the country's border with Guinea
> and Liberia in a bid to control the spread of Ebola.
>
> • British military and humanitarian staff have arrived in Freetown to
> oversee the construction of the UK's medical facility and assist with the
> response to the outbreak.
>
> Scientists have warned that swift action is needed to curb the exponential
> climb in the Ebola outbreak.
>
> Two new estimates suggest that cases of Ebola could soar dramatically in
> the three countries with the majority of cases.
>
> Projections published in The New England Journal of Medicine predict that
> by early November there will have been nearly 20,000 cases.
>
> The analysis of confirmed cases also suggests death rates are higher than
> previously reported at about 70% of all cases, rather than 50%.
>
> Dr Christopher Dye, Director of Strategy for WHO, said unless control
> measures improved quickly "these three countries will soon be reporting
> thousands of cases and deaths each week, projections that are similar to
> those of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC)".
>
> The CDC said that there could be up to 21,000 reported and unreported
> cases in Liberia and Sierra Leone alone by the end of this month.
>
> In predictions released on Tuesday, the US health agency said cases could
> reach as many as 1.4 million by mid-January, if efforts to control the
> outbreak are not scaled up.
>
> But experts cautioned that the numbers seemed ``somewhat pessimistic'' and
> did not account for infection control efforts already underway.
>
> Drug trials
>
> Meanwhile, The Wellcome Trust charity has announced that experimental
> drugs will be tested in West Africa for the first time. They include the
> drug ZMapp, which has been given to a handful of infected health workers.
>
> Dr Peter Horby, of the Centre for Tropical Medicine and Global Health at
> the University of Oxford, said the first trials could begin in West Africa
> as early as November.
>
> "We want to evaluate these carefully, properly, in affected countries in
> West Africa," he told the BBC.
>
> "For the next one or two weeks we'll be doing site assessments and we'll
> be working with the WHO on identifying which drugs to prioritise, and then
> there'll be a number of steps in setting up the systems - getting ethical
> approval through the countries and getting community participation and
> agreement to run the trials."
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