Ebola deaths near 4,500 as virus spreads in West Africa: WHO<p><a href="http://news.yahoo.com/west-africa-ebola-deaths-near-4-500-173906763.html"><img src="http://l.yimg.com/bt/api/res/1.2/Bnq5jdEhdsr3OL13oLoeaQ--/YXBwaWQ9eW5ld3M7Zmk9ZmlsbDtoPTg2O3E9NzU7dz0xMzA-/http://media.zenfs.com/en_us/News/Reuters/2014-10-15T183238Z_1_LYNXNPEA9E0X8_RTROPTP_2_HEALTH-EBOLA.JPG" width="130" height="86" alt="Health worker in protective equipment carries a sample taken from the body of someone who is suspected to have died from Ebola virus, near Rokupa Hospital" align="left" title="Health worker in protective equipment carries a sample taken from the body of someone who is suspected to have died from Ebola virus, near Rokupa Hospital" border="0" /></a>MONROVIA (Reuters) - A total of 4,493 people have died from the world's worst Ebola outbreak on record, and the situation in Guinea, Liberia and Sierra Leone is deteriorating, the World Health Organization said on Wednesday. WHO said a total of 8,997 confirmed, probable and suspected cases of Ebola had been reported in seven countries as of Oct. 12, with the vast majority of these in the three West African nations. In Spain and the United States, a handful of healthcare workers are ill, while Senegal and Nigeria appear to have prevented further spread of the disease, the WHO said. "It is ...</p><br clear="all"/>
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