Ebola toll hits 6,928 .

Nearly 7,000 people have now died
from Ebola in west Africa, with the
latest numbers from the World Health
Organization counting over 1,200
more deaths than in a toll given on
Wednesday.
Data published by the UN’s health
body late Friday showed that 16,169
people had been infected with Ebola
and that 6,928 of them had died in the
three countries at the centre of the
outbreak — Sierra Leone, Guinea and
Liberia.