Sierra Leone Has Overtaken Liberia in Ebola
Sierra Leone has the highest number of Ebola cases of any country, according to the most recent World Health Organization statistics. Sierra Leone has seen 7,780 cases of Ebola, more than the 7,719 cases in Liberia, WHO figures published on Monday show. Some 17,800 people have fallen ill with virus in those two countries and in Guinea, 6,187 of whom have died. In the WHO's latest situation report, published last week, the group said its goal of safely burying 70  of Ebola victims and isolating 70  of Ebola patients had been met in "most districts" of the three hardest-hit West African countries. The WHO cited Liberia as a bright point in the global effort to contain the disease, reporting that case incidence was "stable or declining" in the struggling nation, where 3,177 people have died from the disease. Yet the WHO said that transmission of the virus was still "intense" in Sierra Leone, which at the beginning of the month reported more than 500 new cases over a period of just days.