how many people are affected by ebola
Geneva: The world's worst-ever Ebola epidemic has now infected nearly 6,300 people in West Africa and killed nearly half of them, according to World Health Organization figures released Thursday.
Here are the latest WHO numbers, as of September 21: In Guinea, where the outbreak began late last year, Ebola had as of September 21 infected 1,022 people, killing 635 of them. Nearly a third of those cases surfaced in the three weeks leading up to September 21.
In Liberia, which has been hit the hardest by the outbreak, 3,280 people had been infected with Ebola -- more than half in the preceding three weeks -- and 1,677 of them had died. In Sierra Leone, Ebola had meanwhile infected 1,940 people and killed 593 of them. The three weeks since September 1 accounted for 38 percent of total infections. The situation in the country continues to deteriorate, WHO said, blaming especially a sharp increase in the number of new cases reported in Freetown.