A sudden rise in the Ebola death toll has alerted the World Health Organization last Weekend. However, they confirmed that Liberia wrongly added 1,000 to their death toll. Later on, it was removed from the updated data sheet on Monday.
The sudden rise in the death toll of Ebola in Liberia caused mass panic and hysteria as more people fear for their health and life. Ebola has started in the far flung areas of West Africa. In late November, the death toll nearly reaches 6,000 as infections are continuously rising in the three worst-hit countries which are Liberia, Guinea and Sierra Leone.
The revised data sheet from the World Health Organization shows that the three worst ravaged countries has suffered exactly 5,987 deaths, 1,000 deaths from the previous report published online.
According to WHO assistant director general Bruce Aylward, "Liberia's figures came in but they've since said these were actually non-Ebola deaths that were reported as part of our Ebola deaths and we will be taking them off. So the whole world went up and the whole world will come down again."
Last weekend, the data published has placed Liberia's death toll to 4,182 from 3,016 two days earlier. Last Monday, the updated figures showed that Libera has a death toll of 3,145 out of the 7,635 cases as of November 28, 2014.
As Liberia infections started to slow down, Sierra Leone had almost the same cases with a total infections of 7,109 with 1,530 deaths. However, only 5,831 were confirmed to be Ebola cases. Meanwhile, Guinea is the third worst-hit country with 1,312 deaths out of all 2,155 confirmed cases.
Ebola Virus Disease is a deadly disease caused by a virus. Up to date, there is still no known treatment for the condition but experimental drugs as well as a new vaccine creates hope among those in West Africa.