Ebola has upper hand, says US expert

Ebola still has the “upper hand” in the outbreak that has killed more than 1,400 people in West Africa, but experts have the means to stop it, an American expert has said.

Dr Tom Frieden, director of the US Centres for Disease Control and Prevention, has been in Liberia and later plans to stop in Sierra Leone and Guinea. Nigeria also has cases, but officials there have expressed optimism the virus can be controlled.