Ebola Death Toll Eclipses 4,000 With No Signs of Slowing

Source: mashable.com --- Friday, October 10, 2014 Deaths from the Ebola outbreak in West Africa, including recent fatalities in the United States and Spain, have exceeded 4,000 for the first time, the World Health Organization announced on Friday. The announcement came one day after World Bank Group President Jim Yong Kim issued a dire warning that if the epidemic is not contained soon, "nothing less than the future of not only West Africa, but perhaps even Africa is at stake." On Wednesday, the World Bank published a report that found that the shuttering of stores, vanishing infrastructure investments and other economic ramifications of the Ebola epidemic is having a profound impact in the hard-hit countries of Guinea, Liberia and Sierra Leone. "We're still way, way behind the curve, and we have to quickly speed up. We have to scale up the global response," Kim said. Read more... More about Sierra Leone , Guinea , United Nations , Africa , and Liberia ...

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