No sign of slowdown as ebola kills 2,600

At least 2,630 people have died in the worst outbreak of ebola virus in history, which has so far infected at least 5,357 people in West Africa, the World Health Organisation (WHO) said.

In an update on the epidemic, which is raging through Guinea, Sierra Leone and Liberia and has spread into Nigeria and Senegal, the WHO said there were no signs yet of it slowing.

“The upward epidemic trend continues in the three countries that have widespread and intense transmission — Guinea, Liberia and Sierra Leone,” the United Nations health agency said.