WHO: West Africa Ebola Deaths Near 4,500

A total of 4,493 people have died from the world's worst Ebola outbreak on record as of October 12, statistics released by the World Health Organization showed on Wednesday. WHO said a total of 8,997 confirmed, probable and suspected cases of Ebola had been reported in seven countries, with the vast majority of these in the West African nations of Liberia, Sierra Leone and Guinea. In Spain and the United States, a handful of healthcare workers are ill, while Senegal and...

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