Ebola cases doubling in weeks: UN

The UN special envoy on Ebola says the number of cases is probably doubling every three to four weeks and the response needs to be 20 times greater than it was at the beginning of October.

Fri, 10 Oct, 2014 - 19:01

The UN special envoy on Ebola says the number of cases is probably doubling every three to four weeks and the response needs to be 20 times greater than it was at the beginning of October.

David Nabarro warned the UN General Assembly that without the mass mobilisation of the world to support the affected countries in west Africa, “it will be impossible to get this disease quickly under control, and the world will have to live with the Ebola virus forever”.