Study warns swift action needed to curb exponential climb in Ebola outbreak: Investigation of new data expands information on spread of outbreak and case fatality rate
22 September 2014 ¦ GENEVA -Unless Ebola control measures in west Africa are enhanced quickly, experts from the WHO and Imperial College, London, predict numbers will continue to climb exponentially, and more than 20 000 people will have been infected by early November, according to a new article in the New England Journal of Medicine released 6 months after WHO was first notified of the outbreak in west Africa.