Liberia Ebola deaths down, Sierra Leone up after revision: WHO

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Liberia Ebola deaths down, Sierra Leone up after revision: WHO

By Tom Miles GENEVA (Reuters) - Almost 300 fewer people are known to have died from Ebola in Liberia than previously thought, while more than 200 have been added to Sierra Leone's death toll, the World Health Organization said in a regular Ebola update on Wednesday. The WHO said it had tried to clean up data after laboratory tests weeded out many false positives -- "probable" and "suspected" deaths that turned out not to be Ebola -- with the end result that the total death toll stood at about 4,922, unchanged from the previous count last Friday. ...

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