His Ebola infection was confirmed Saturday. Brantly, the medical director for Samaritan Purses Ebola Consolidated Case Management Center in Monrovia, Liberia, has been in the country since last October, Strickland said. When the Ebola outbreak hit, he took on responsibilities with our Ebola direct clinical treatment response, but he was serving in a missionary hospital in Liberia prior to his work with Ebola patients, she said. Deadliest Ebola outbreak Health officials say the current Ebola outbreak, centered in West Africa, is the deadliest ever. As of July 20, some 1,093 people in Guinea, Sierra Leone and Liberia are thought to have been infected by Ebola since its symptoms were first observed four months ago, according to the World Health Organization. Testing confirmed the Ebola virus in 786 of those cases; 442 of those people died. Of the 1,093 confirmed, probable and suspected cases, 660 people have died. And there are fears the virus could spread to the Africas most populous country, Nigeria.
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