The incidence of confirmed Ebola cases has been reduced by the week, prompting the United Nations’ Ebola coordinator David Nabarro to say, “We have passed the tipping point and we are beginning to be on the downward slope of the outbreak.” UN welcomed fresh data from the World Health Organization showing that all 3 hardest-hit countries in West Africa – Liberia, Guinea, and Sierra Leone – had registered the lowest weekly tally of new cases in months. More than 8,400 people have died since the Ebola outbreak began in Guinea in December 2013. Meanwhile, a nurse working for the Red Cross in Sierra Leone has died of Ebola in the eastern district of Kenema, where no new cases had been reported for 37 days.
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