Five more suspected cases have been detected in Guinea and Liberia.
Those fighting the outbreak focus on providing accurate information and on minimizing risk.
Each country has confirmed 6 new cases, bringing the outbreak total to 143.
Guinea has reported 10 more suspected or confirmed cases of Ebola virus disease (EVD), along with three more deaths. Gregory Hartl, a spokesman for the World Health Organization (WHO), said today in a Twitter post that the developments push the country's overall outbreak total to 137 illnesses, 86 of them fatal.
A Liberian health official said today that three more deaths have been reported among suspected and confirmed Ebola virus disease (EVD) cases, raising the number so far to seven, AllAfrica News reported today.
The new Ebola cases push the outbreak total to 127 cases, including 83 fatal ones.
Two more patients have died in Guinea's Ebola outbreak, pushing the number of fatal cases to 80.
Lab tests have confirmed Ebola in two patients from a district that borders Guinea.
Guinea's health officials, during a press briefing today on the country's Ebola outbreak, reported that the number of viral hemorrhagic fever cases has reached 112, 70 of them fatal, up from 88 cases and 66 deaths reported yesterday. An account of the press briefing appeared in a French-language report in the Guinea-based Le Jour newspaper, which was translated and posted by H5N1 Blog, an infectious disease news site.
The number of suspected and confirmed cases in the nation climbed from 86 to 103.
