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More than one million people have been affected by the current Ebola outbreak in west Africa and there is "no early end in sight", the World Health Organisation (WHO) has warned.
"This is an extraordinary outbreak that requires extraordinary measures for containment. This is a severe health crisis, and it can rapidly become a humanitarian crisis if we do not do more to stop transmission," WHO director-deneral Margaret Chan said during a briefing in Geneva on Wednesday. Those affected, Chan said, needed daily material support, including food.
According to the latest WHO update, 128 new cases of Ebola virus disease, as well as 56 deaths, were reported from Guinea, Liberia, Nigeria, and Sierra Leone between August 10 and 11, bringing the total number of cases to 1,975 and deaths to 1,069.