Over 20,000 people contracted Ebola in 2014: WHO

Geneva, January 03, 2015 (IANS) The number of people infected with the deadly Ebola virus reached 20,381 people by the end of 2014, and 7,989 of them died of the disease, according to figures released on Friday by the World Health Organisation (WHO).

Meanwhile, in Guinea Conakry, there were 2,730 infections and 1,739 deaths recorded in 2014.

This is the worst Ebola epidemic since the virus was discovered in 1976, approximately 100 km from the Ebola river in the Democratic Republic of Congo.