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| Global Ebola outbreak deaths exceed 4,000 - WHO | |
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| The number of deaths attributed to the Ebola outbreak has risen above 4,000, the World Health Organization says. | |
| The latest figures show there have been 4,024 confirmed or suspected deaths in the worst-affected West African nations of Guinea, Liberia and Sierra Leone. | |
| Eight deaths are linked to the haemorrhagic fever in Senegal and one in the US. | |
| In total, there have been 8,399 confirmed or suspected cases, mostly in West Africa. | |
| The news comes as Liberian MPs refused to grant the president additional powers to deal with the Ebola crisis. | The news comes as Liberian MPs refused to grant the president additional powers to deal with the Ebola crisis. |
| President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf has already declared a state of emergency that allows her to impose quarantines. | President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf has already declared a state of emergency that allows her to impose quarantines. |
| One parliamentarian, Bhofal Chambers, warned that creeping extra powers could turn Liberia into a "police state". | |
| The UN says more than 233 health workers working in West Africa have now died in the outbreak, the world's deadliest to date. | |
| A nurse in Spain is being treated for the virus after becoming infected from an Ebola patient who had been repatriated from Liberia - the country most badly hit by the disease with 2,316 confirmed or suspected deaths. | |
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