Two of the five countries affected by the world's worst-ever Ebola outbreak are managing to halt the spread of the disease, the World Health Organization said on Monday, although the overall death toll has risen to 2,811 out of 5,864 cases.
"On the whole, the outbreaks in Senegal and Nigeria are pretty much
contained," said an update from WHO's regional director in Africa.
Only one case has been reported in Senegal and all
contacts with the patient have now completed a 21-day follow-up, the
incubation period of the disease, with no further cases of the virus
found, a second WHO statement said.
In Nigeria, the number of cases has been cut from 21 to 20
after a suspected case was ruled out and 696 contacts have completed
the 21-day follow-up. Three were still being monitored in Lagos and 175
in Port Harcourt, the WHO said.
In the three worst-hit countries - Liberia, Sierra Leone
and Guinea - the disease continued to spread, with a first confirmed
case in the Guinean district of Kindia, and a rising death toll in all
three.
More
than half of all the deaths have occurred in Liberia, where 1,578 have
died. Another 632 have died in Guinea and 593 in Sierra Leone.
Ebola statistics are based on multiple sources of
information and the number of cases - divided between suspected,
probable and confirmed cases - can be revised.
One unexplained figure in the latest data was for the
number of health workers who have died in Sierra Leone. At 61 deaths as
of Sept 19, it was almost double the 31 recorded in the WHO's previous
update, at the end of Sept 14.
A WHO spokeswoman said she could not immediately explain
the apparent leap in the number of dead Sierra Leone health workers.
A separate Ebola outbreak has killed 41 people in
Democratic Republic of Congo, where 68 cases were reported as at Sept
18.
SOURCE: YAHOO
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