Ebola death toll rises to 1,552, with 3,062 cases - WHO

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A quarantine team for Ebola
A quarantine team for Ebola

The death toll from the Ebola outbreak tearing through West Africa has passed the 1,500 mark while the number of cases has soared past 3,000, the World Health Organization said Thursday.

As of August 26, 1,552 people had died from the murderous epidemic that reared its head at the beginning of the year, while 3,062 had become infected, the UN’s health body said.

On August 20, the toll stood at 1,427 deaths out of 2,600 cases.

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Earlier today, Nigeria on Thursday said that a doctor had died from Ebola in the southeastern oil city of Port Harcourt in the first case of the deadly virus in the state.

Health minister Onyebuchi Chukwu said the medic died on August 22 after treating a patient who had contact with the Liberian-American man who brought the virus to Nigeria, and who died in a Lagos hospital on July 25.

“Following the report of this death by the doctor’s widow the next day, the case had been thoroughly investigated and laboratory analysis showed that this doctor died from EVD (Ebola Virus Disease),” he told reporters in the capital Abuja.

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