The World Health Organization issued a dire Ebola warning on Monday concerning Liberia, saying that the number of afflicted patients was increasing exponentially, that nearly all the country has confirmed cases and that all new treatment facilities were overwhelmed, “pointing to a large but previously invisible caseload.”
The description of the crisis in Liberia, which along with Sierra Leone and Guinea are the three West African countries at the center of the worst Ebola outbreak ever recorded, suggested an even more chaotic situation in Liberia than had been thought, with the highest cumulative numbers of reported cases and deaths.