The rate of Ebola infections appeared to be slowing in hard-hit Liberia, the World Health Organization confirmed on Wednesday.

Data from a range of different sources, including from funeral directors reporting fewer Ebola and other burials and from treatment centres reporting lower Ebola patient admission rates, indicated a "downward trend" across much of Liberia, he said.
Labs were also seeing a "plateauing or slight decline" in the number of confirmed cases, he said.
Aylward added, though, that he was "terrified that the information will be misinterpreted and that people will begin to think Ebola is under control."
"That is like thinking your pet tiger is under control," he warned.
He said that a rapid scaling up of information to the community about the deadly virus, contact tracing and implementation of safe burial practices had likely contributed to the positive trend in Liberia.
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Aylward said that the number of cases had soared to more than 13,700 -- up from just over the 10,000 WH0 reported on Saturday -- but he stressed that the hike was mainly due to previously unreported cases being added to the statistics.
Source-AFP