The number of ebola cases in West Africa could start doubling every three weeks and could end up costing €770m to contain the crisis, the World Health Organisation warned yesterday.

WIDE-EYED and bewildered, Janviere looks up from his hospital bed.

MAISHA stares blankly at the hospital wall, his eyes not revealing any emotion. Sitting on the corner of a sagging ward bed, the five-year-old does not know why a heavy cast and bandages cover his right arm.

Survivors fought over packs of noodles in the quake-devastated streets of Indonesia’s Banda Aceh, while tons of aid was left stranded in the airport as government troops searched for vehicles and fuel to transport it.