Ebola crisis in west Africa: WHO calls for drastic action

The World Health Organisation has called for "drastic action" to fight the deadliest Ebola outbreak on record, as it announced an 11-nation meeting to address the growing crisis.

As of Sunday, 635 cases of haemorrhagic fever – most confirmed to be Ebola – including 399 deaths have been reported across Guinea, Liberiaand Sierra Leone, making the outbreak the largest ever "in terms of the number of cases and deaths as well as geographical spread," the WHO said.

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