DOUALA, Cameroon (AP) — The World Health Organization says
West Africa’s Ebola outbreak has claimed 467 lives as the death toll
continues to climb in all three countries reporting cases.
In a statement Tuesday it said 759 people have been infected in Guinea, Liberia and Sierra Leone.
The
new numbers include suspected, probable and laboratory-confirmed cases.
Their release comes on the eve of a two-day regional meeting in Ghana
to improve efforts to combat the disease.
An update last week said
there had been 367 deaths, already far higher than the previous most
lethal outbreak which killed 254 people in Congo in 1995.
Transmission
has been facilitated by widespread distrust of health workers, heavy
traffic near the countries’ porous borders and the spread of the disease
to capital cities in both Liberia and Guinea.