--- title: Ebola Virus Casualties Top 1,200 description: In the span of three days, the World Health Organization has tallied another 84 deaths from confirmed or probable cases of Ebola virus, bringing the death toll in west Africa to 1,229 people. canonical: https://time.com/3143658/who-ebola-casualties-top-1200/ author: Dan Kedmey article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2014-08-19T11:48:39.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-08-04T08:00:51.555Z article:section: Health og:title: Ebola Virus Casualties Top 1,200 og:description: In the span of three days, the World Health Organization has tallied another 84 deaths from confirmed or probable cases of Ebola virus, bringing the death toll in west Africa to 1,229 people. og:url: https://time.com/3143658/who-ebola-casualties-top-1200/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltbcd65a02e3227e16/6986a003cd6848e1f10961be/ebola-body.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 5184 og:image:height: 2916 og:image:alt: A Liberian burial team wearing protective clothing retrieves the body of a 60-year-old Ebola victim from his home on August 17, 2014 near Monrovia, Liberia. og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Ebola Virus Casualties Top 1,200 twitter:description: In the span of three days, the World Health Organization has tallied another 84 deaths from confirmed or probable cases of Ebola virus, bringing the death toll in west Africa to 1,229 people. twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltbcd65a02e3227e16/6986a003cd6848e1f10961be/ebola-body.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # WHO: Ebola Casualties Top 1,200 > Sponsored content. 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John Moore—Getty Images  by [Dan Kedmey](https://time.com/author/dan-kedmey/)  ## Dan Kedmey Aug 19, 2014 11:48 AM UTC The World Health Organization has tallied another 84 deaths from confirmed or probable cases of Ebola virus over the past three days, bringing the [death toll](http://time.com/3089810/ebola-map/) in West Africa to 1,229 people. The WHO [released](http://www.who.int/csr/don/2014%5F08%5F19%5Febola/en/) the updated figures on Tuesday and announced an increase in food and aid shipments to roughly 1 million people living within the quarantined areas of Guinea, Liberia and Sierra Leone. “It is essential that people in those zones have access to food, water, good sanitation and other basic supplies,” the WHO said in a statement, adding that it had partnered with the United Nations World Food Programme to scale up its aide shipments to affected areas and target its deliveries to hospitals and quarantined homes. “Providing regular food supplies is a potent means of limiting unnecessary movement,” the organization said. Liberia’s information minister said Tuesday that three Ebola-stricken African doctors who were treated with a regimen of the experimental drug, ZMapp have shown “remarkable signs of improvement,” Reuters [reports](http://af.reuters.com/article/liberiaNews/idAFL5N0QP1IY20140819). The minister also confirmed that 17 Ebola patients who escaped from a quarantine center in Monrovia had been found and transferred to a treatment center. ## Transcript This Ebola outbreak is unprecedented. This is definitely a marathon and not a sprint. The bugs have evolved. The outbreak has gotten bigger. We are only as strong as the weakest link, and we have learned from Ebola that West Africa was a very weak link. [ MUSIC ] There's small clinics, these are like one room places where sick people might go in their house with maybe an auxiliary nurse as some one who has a little bit of medical training, but defiantly not the same standards that we would have here in the US. We're facing 3 main threats. The first is the threat of new organisms. It was coming and spreading in different places. The second is drug- resistant bacteria, and the third are intentionally created organisms. What we do in an outbreak response is continuously see how can we make it better. The exercises we've gone through both, re- evaluating our own protocols but also understanding what the public and governmental responses are has really helped us understand. How to take care of these patients in the larger context of our healthcare systems. And, those who are in the building, I would urge you to come down to either the ops team room, or the, When designing a unit that is designed to accept patients with serious communicable diseases, like Ebola, there are ways to design a unit so that it's function. Functional. Any hospital that can isolate a patient in a single patient room with a bathroom and can follow our infection control recommendations is capable of safely caring for a patient with Ebola. And we've tried to encourage every single hospital in the country to have an antibiotic stewardship program to improve antibiotic prescribing practices. There is a concern about fatigue as we go on that, the CDC other groups have sort of ramping up now to try to surge resources into the area. What we're also realizing is, we need to be able to maintain that surge for many months to keep the pressure on to completely control the outbreak. Time will tell in the next few weeks if we can start to see those numbers going in the right direction. Fewer new cases each day or each week. The single most important thing to understand about protecting Americans from Ebola is that can best be done by stopping it at the source in Africa. 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