CDC- Ebola Cases Could Reach 1.4M

• published: 29 Sep 2014
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The number of Ebola cases in Liberia and Sierra Leone could rise to between 550,000 and 1.4 million by January The range of estimated cases from 550,000 to 1.4 million is wide because experts suspect the current count is highly under-reported. The official death toll from Ebola in West Africa has climbed to more than 2,800 in six months, with 5,800 cases confirmed as of Monday, the World Health Organization said. But the CDC estimates that In a press conference Tuesday, / Medical staff members burn clothes belonging to patients suffering from Ebola at the facility for Medecins Sans Frontieres, also known as Doctors Without Borders in Monrovia, Liberia, on Saturday, September 27. Health officials say the Ebola outbreak in West Africa is the deadliest ever. The total number of probable, confirmed and suspected cases of Ebola was more than 6,000, with more than 3,000 deaths, as of September 27, the World Health Organization said. A police officer patrols on a road in Monrovia, Liberia, on September 27, after a body was found in the center of the city. Tents are set up as heath control centers at an air base near the Senegal capital of Dakar, on September 27. Senegal opened an air corridor to allow humanitarian aid to be delivered to the three areas most affected by the Ebola virus, after closing its borders on August 21 A health worker sprays disinfectant around the area where a man who may have Ebola sits before loading the patient into an ambulance in Freetown, Sierra Leone, on Wednesday, September 24. People wait outside a new Ebola treatment center in Monrovia, Liberia, on Tuesday, September 23. Health workers in protective suits work outside an Ebola treatment center in Monrovia on September 23. Medics load an Ebola patient onto a plane at Sierra Leone's Freetown-Lungi International Airport on Monday, September 22. A team that handles the management of dead bodies from Ebola prays with Saymon Kamara, far right, on September 22 in Monrovia. Kamara's mother died from complications of high blood pressure. A few people are seen in Freetown, Sierra Leone, during a three-day nationwide lockdown on Sunday, September 21. In an attempt to curb the spread of the Ebola virus, people in Sierra Leone were told to stay in their homes. A baby pig sleeps in front of an ambulance at the Connaught Hospital in Freetown on September 21. Supplies wait to be loaded onto an aircraft at New York's John F. Kennedy International Airport on Saturday, September 20. It was the largest single shipment of aid to the Ebola zone to date, and it was coordinated by the Clinton Global Initiative and other U.S. aid organizations. A volunteer health worker in Freetown talks with residents on how to prevent Ebola infection and ident Police in Freetown guard a roadblock Friday, September 19, as the country began enforcing its three-day nationwide lockdown. A student of the Sainte