GENEVA — The death toll from Ebola in West Africa rose to 3,338, a sign the outbreak isn’t abating as the first case diagnosed outside Africa was confirmed in the United States.
The U.S. case, in a man in Dallas who had recently traveled to Liberia, shows the difficulty of completely containing the outbreak and highlighted vulnerabilities in airport screening procedures designed to keep it from spreading globally.
The outbreak has spurred 7,178 infections through Sept. 28, the World Health Organization said Wednesday in a statement. Almost all of the Ebola virus disease cases and deaths are in Guinea, Liberia and Sierra Leone.
“For the second week in a row the total number of reported new cases has fallen,” the WHO said in the statement. “It is clear, however, that EVD cases are under-reported from several key locations. Transmission remains persistent and widespread in Guinea, Liberia and Sierra Leone, with strong evidence of increasing case incidence in several districts.”
