04/08/2014
WHO: Death toll from Ebola in W. Africa hits 887
ABUJA, Nigeria ? Authorities in Nigeria on Monday announced a second case of Ebola in Africa's most populous country, an alarming setback as the total death toll from the disease in several West Africa countries shot up by more than 150 to 887. Most of the newly reported deaths occurred in Liberia, where on Monday night a special plane to evacuate a second American missionary who fell ill with Ebola landed in the capital. Nancy Writebol is expected to arrive in Atlanta on Tuesday, where she will be treated at a special isolation ward. Health authorities in Liberia ordered that all those who die from Ebola be cremated after communities resisted having the bodies buried nearby....
