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Volunteers wearing t-shirts of the United
Nations Development Programme (UNDP) show a placard to raise awareness on the
symptoms of the Ebola virus to students of the Sainte Therese school, in the
Koumassi district, in Abidjan, on Sept 15, 2014, on the first day of the school
year. -- PHOTO: AFP
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The
deadliest Ebola epidemic on record has now infected more than 5,000 people in West
Africa and killed around half of them, the World Health Organization (WHO) said.
The
UN health agency said a total of 5,347 people had been infected across five West
African countries, and that 2,630 had died.
In the three hardest-hit
countries of Guinea, Liberia and Sierra Leone, 45 per cent of the cases were
recorded in the past three weeks, WHO said.
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