Ebola toll tops 2 000, cases near 4 000

Geneva - More than 2 000 people have died in the Ebola outbreak in West Africa, the World Health Organisation said on Friday, out of
about 4 000 patients thought to have been infected in the three countries worst hit by the
disease.

The death toll in Guinea, Liberia and Sierra Leone totalled 2 097 as at 5 September, out of 3 944 cases, a WHO document said.