--- ---  # WHO: Ebola Casualties Top 1,200 ## Video: Meet The CDC Doctors Fighting Ebola [Watch (HLS stream): Meet The CDC Doctors Fighting Ebola](https://cdn.jwplayer.com/manifests/G194AmTC.m3u8) (2:32)  _Published 2014-08-13. Meet The CDC Doctors Fighting Ebola_  by [Dan Kedmey](https://time.com/author/dan-kedmey/)  ## Dan Kedmey Aug 19, 2014 11:48 AM UTC  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. 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.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. 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