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Thu Jun 19, 2014, 07:36 AM Jun 2014

Ebola outbreak spreads as toll reaches 337 (infected 500)

Don't panic yet

via al Jazeera
World Health Organization says "one of most challenging" Ebola outbreaks ever is spreading in West Africa.
An Ebola outbreak continues to spread in three West African countries, and the death toll in the outbreak has risen to 337, the World Health Organization says.

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In an update published on its website on Wednesday, the agency said that more than 500 suspected or confirmed cases of the virus had been recorded.

That appears to be a large increase since the last update, published about a week earlier, when the agency reported about 240 had died of the disease. But there is sometimes a significant lag in tallying cases, and the organisation said the numbers were constantly in flux as test results came in.
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