Getting help to Ebola-stricken countries to cost $600 million: U.N.

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The cost of getting supplies needed to West African countries to get the Ebola crisis under control will be at least $600 million (365 million pounds), Dr David Nabarro, the senior United Nations Coordinator for Ebola Disease, told reporters on Wednesday.

More than 40 percent of the Ebola cases in West Africa, where the outbreak began in March, have occurred in the past 21 days, officials from the World Health Organization said, another indication that the epidemic is fast outpacing efforts to control it.