GENEVA
The cases of patients suffering from the deadly-virus Ebola are expected to cross over 9,000 this week in West Africa, the World Health Organization said Tuesday.
Currently, there are 8,914 known cases in West Africa.
"We will go over 9,000 cases this week and the number of reported deaths is 4,447 as of this morning," WHO assistant director general Bruce Aylward said at a press conference in Geneva.
Aylward said the Ebola outbreak in West Africa was still expanding geographically in Guinea, Sierra Leone and Liberia.
The official also indicated that the Ebola death rate had risen to 70 percent from 50 percent.
Aylward said there could be up to 10,000 new Ebola cases per week until December.
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