Ebola spread outpaces control bid

An Ebola outbreak that has killed more than 700 people in West Africa is moving faster than efforts to control the disease, the head of the World Health Organisation has warned as presidents from affected countries met in Guinea’s capital.

Dr Margaret Chan, WHO’s director general, said the meeting in Conakry “must be a turning point” in the battle against Ebola, which is now hitting people in three African capitals for the first time in history.