Possible 6,800 new Ebola cases this month, research predicts

Saturday, September 20, 2014 - 05:00 in Health & Medicine

A possible 6,800 new Ebola cases this are predicted this month, as suggested by researchers who used modelling analysis to come up with their figures. The rate of new cases significantly increased in August in Liberia and Guinea, around the time that a mass quarantine was put in place, indicating that the mass quarantine efforts may have made the outbreak worse than it would have been otherwise.

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