The World Health Organization (WHO) reported on Tuesday that the persistent Ebola outbreak has now killed 2,296 people in West Africa.

The figures WHO reported marks the largest number of cases and deaths regarding the Ebola Outbreak in West Africa. Also, health care workers have been infected and some died because of the virus.

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As of September 6, over 4,260 cases were reported in Guinea, Liberia, and Sierra Leone. This is apart from the reported number of deaths reported by WHO.

WHO warns West Africa's Public Health Emergency of International concern that thousands of cases are expected to spread in Liberia in the next three weeks. Liberia is considered to be the worst-affected country, but the official death toll has not been released yet. However, authorities assume that the death toll has already increased since the last count.

The UN organization said that conventional Ebola control measures do not have sufficient impact in Liberia, while most healthcare workers focus more on Nigeria, Senegal and the Democratic Republic of Congo.

Liberian President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf said she expects the cases to worsen because the workers do not have enough supply and because there is no support from the outside.

She talked to an audience at the Harvard University in Cambridge through Skype and said that the steps health workers follow take a long time to take effect. Because of this, there would be three or more weeks before the number of cases go down.

The Liberian Minister of National Defense, Brownie Samukai, also released a statement saying that the outbreak has caused a serious threat to their national existence. He added that the virus caused a disruption to their normal function as a State.

In Nigeria, only 21 cases and 8 deaths have been reported. In Senegal, only one case was confirmed.

The outbreak started back in December 2013 in Guinea and has lately spread in the affected areas. The virus causes victims to suffer from diarrhea, vomiting and internal and external bleeding. The virus gets transmitted through direct contact with bodily fluids such as urine, saliva, blood, sweat and semen.

The virus can kill up to 90 percent of those infected. However, the latest figures WHO released is said that only 60 percent of the total number of cases are affected.

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