Ebola death toll rises to 7 ,518

The death toll from Ebola in the three
West Africa countries hardest hit by the
epidemic has risen to 7 ,518 out of 19,340
confirmed cases recorded there to date, the
World Health Organization said on Monday .
The latest data showed more than 140 new
deaths since the last update , posted by the
WHO three days earlier.
The epidemic, centred in Guinea, Liberia
and Sierra Leone, is the world ’s worst ever
outbreak of the hemorrhagic fever,
Reuters says.
Sierra Leone accounts for the most cases,
8 ,939 , while Liberia has 7,830 and Guinea
2 ,571 . But Sierra Leone’ s death toll of 2 ,556
is much less than the 3 ,376 recorded in
Liberia, leading some health experts to
question the credibility of the figures
reported by Freetown .
Sierra Leone’s government last week
launched a major operation to contain the
epidemic , where the public health
infrastructure is flimsy and poverty
widespread as in other West African
countries.