The number of Ebola infections will triple to 20,000 by November, soaring by the thousands every week if effort are not significantly stepped up to stop the outbreak, the WHO warned on Tuesday.
“Without drastic improvements in control measures, the numbers of cases of and deaths from Ebola are expected to continue increasing from hundreds to thousands per week in the coming months,” the World Health Organization said in a study.
The current outbreak in West Africa has already claimed more than 2,800 lives and infected more than 5,800 people. But the WHO study forecasts that if no significant action is taken, “the cumulative number of confirmed and probable cases by November 2 ... Will be 5,925 in Guinea, 9,939 in liberia and 5,063 in Sierra leone”.