Deaths from Ebola stand at 932 in four West African countries, the World Health Organization says Wednesday as it holds an emergency meeting to decide whether to declare the outbreak a global health emergency.
A total of 108 new cases and 45 deaths were reported between Aug. 2 and Aug. 4, the UN health agency said. Most of the newly reported deaths were in Liberia. In Nigeria, the number of cases increased from four to nine, including one previous death. Cases have also been seen in Sierra Leone and Guinea, where the outbreak originated.
At a two-day meeting, WHO officials are discussing how to contain the outbreak and whether to declare it a "public health emergency of international concern." Evidence of ongoing sustained human to human transmission is one of the key criteria that experts use to make the decision.
If so, it may entail border closures and even travels bans.
WHO said critical issues include:
- Cross-border infections and travellers.
- Stretched capacity and ability for partners to respond rapidly, safely and effectively.
- Socioeconomic impacts.
Volunteers lower a corpse, which is prepared with safe burial practices to ensure it does not pose a health risk to others and stop the chain of person-to-person transmission of Ebola, into a grave in Kailahun, Sierra Leone. (Tarik Jasarevic/WHO/Reuters)
Elsewhere on Wednesday, two American aid workers who contracted Ebola in Liberia appear to be improving after receiving an experimental medicine ahead of their evacuation back to the U.S. It's unknown whether the cocktail has helped.
In Saudi Arabia, a 40-year-old man suspected to have contracted the Ebola virus after returning from Sierra Leone died , the country's health minister said. If confirmed, it would be the first Ebola-related death outside of Africa.
A Nigerian nurse who treated a man with Ebola died and five others are sick after coming in contract with him, a health official said. The death of the unidentified nurse is the country's second from Ebola.
In late July, Patrick Sawyer, a 40-year-old American of Liberian descent, flew from Liberia's capital to the Nigerian megacity of Lagos, introducing the virus there.
Experts say people infected with Ebola can spread the disease only through their bodily fluids and after they show symptoms.The incubation period can last up to 21 days.
Spain's Defence Ministry said Wednesday a medically equipped Airbus 310 is ready to fly to Liberia to repatriate Miguel Pajares, a Spanish missionary priest who has tested positive for the Ebola virus.
Pajares is one of three missionaries being kept in isolation at the San Jose de Monrovia Hospital in Liberia who has tested positive for the virus, Spain's San Juan de Dios hospital order, a Catholic humanitarian group that runs hospitals around the world, said Tuesday.
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