World Health Organization (WHO) Assistant Director General Bruce Aylward speaks during a press briefing on WHO's strategy to combat Ebola, which has killed almost 5,000 people, mainly in Guinea, Sierra Leone and Liberia. (Pierre Albouy/Reuters)
The Ebola death toll is likely over 5,000 out of 13,703 cases worldwide, the World Health Organization says.
Dr. Bruce Aylward, WHO assistant director-general in charge of the operational response, gave the update to reporters on Wednesday.
In Liberia, there are signs of progress, such as decline in burial numbers and lab-confirmed cases that appear to have plateaued, Alyward said. That could be thanks to the right information getting to people to change their behaviour and protect themselves as well as safe burials.
"Do we feel confident that the response is now getting an upper hand on the virus? Yes, we are seeing slowing rate of new cases, very definitely," he told a news conference.
While he's confident that they're seeing a slowing in the rate of new cases, the danger is that instead of cases going down steadily, they start to oscillate up and down, for example, if burials go wrong and start new chains of transmission, he warned.
The number of cases in the worst affected countries of Guinea, Liberia and Sierra Leone is 13,676. WHO attributes what looks like a jump in the number of cases to updated data on old cases that were piling up and took time to reconcile.
In contrast, the seven-day rolling average has been steady at around 9,000 or 10,000 in recent weeks, he said.
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