4000 Deaths And Counting: The Ebola Epidemic In 4 Charts
http://www.forbes.com/sites/jvchamary/2014/10/13/ebola-trends/
“The Ebola epidemic might also be much larger than reports suggest. WHO depends on data from field teams, which can understate the true scale of an outbreak. According to projections by the US Centers of Disease Control and Prevention, by late January 2015 there will be 550,000 cases in West Africa but when you correct for underreporting the figure rises to 1.4 million.
As the WHO Global Response Team conclude in their recent study: These data indicate that without drastic improvements in control measures, the numbers of cases of and deaths from [Ebola virus disease] are expected to continue increasing from hundreds to thousands per week in the coming months.
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