Ebola stabilising in Liberia, doomsday forecasts wrong - president


  • World
  • Thursday, 02 Oct 2014

DAKAR (Reuters) - Liberia's President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf says the Ebola crisis is stabilising in her country and new data will soon prove that warnings from U.S. and U.N. experts of tens of thousands of cases were "simply wrong".

The comments, made to France 24's English news channel late on Wednesday, follow forecasts from the World Health Organisation that 20,000 people could be infected with Ebola by early November. The U.S. Centers for Disease Control has warned of hundreds of thousands of cases if swift action is not taken.

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