--- title: West Africa's Ebola Death Toll Tops 2,900 description: The virus continues to spread in Liberia canonical: https://time.com/3429763/ebola-deaths/ author: Nolan Feeney article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2014-09-25T12:00:03.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-02-21T10:24:33.843Z article:section: Health og:title: Ebola Death Toll Tops 2,900 og:description: The virus continues to spread in Liberia og:url: https://time.com/3429763/ebola-deaths/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltbd15fbb0efdd95fc/6986a55dcd6848477a096a43/ebola-west-africa.jpg?branch=production&width=3840&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: NIGERIA-SAUDI-RELIGION-ISLAM og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Ebola Death Toll Tops 2,900 twitter:description: The virus continues to spread in Liberia twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltbd15fbb0efdd95fc/6986a55dcd6848477a096a43/ebola-west-africa.jpg?branch=production&width=3840&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # West Africa's Ebola Death Toll Tops 2,900  by [Nolan Feeney](https://time.com/author/nolan-feeney/)  ## Nolan Feeney Sep 25, 2014 12:00 PM UTC  A health official waits to screen for the ebola virus Muslim faithfuls on pilgrimage to Mecca on September 19, 2014 at the Murtala Mohammed International Airport in Lagos. A health official waits to screen for the ebola virus Muslim faithfuls on pilgrimage to Mecca on September 19, 2014 at the Murtala Mohammed International Airport in Lagos.Pius Utomi Ekpei—AFP/Getty Images  by [Nolan Feeney](https://time.com/author/nolan-feeney/)  ## Nolan Feeney Sep 25, 2014 12:00 PM UTC The death toll of the Ebola outbreak in several West African countries [is now at least 2,917](http://www.nytimes.com/2014/09/26/world/africa/ebola-death-toll-is-more-than-2900-who-says.html?partner=rss&emc=rss&smid=tw-nytimes&%5Fr=0), the World Health Organization announced Thursday. At least 2,909 deaths have been reported in Liberia, Sierra Leone and Guinea, the New York _Times_ reports. There have been eight deaths and 21 infections in Senegal and Nigeria as well. There have been 6,242 reported cases of Ebola in total, according to the United Nations health agency. While the number of cases has appeared to stabilize in Guinea and some parts of Sierra Leone, there have been more than 1,700 new cases reported in Liberia in the last three weeks alone. More than half of all deaths and infections related to this latest and worst-ever Ebola outbreak have happened in Liberia. \[[_NYT_](http://www.nytimes.com/2014/09/26/world/africa/ebola-death-toll-is-more-than-2900-who-says.html?partner=rss&emc=rss&smid=tw-nytimes&%5Fr=0)\] ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/3429763/ebola-deaths/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/3429763/ebola-deaths/"},"headline":"West Africa's Ebola Death Toll Tops 2,900","datePublished":"2014-09-25T12:00:03.000Z","dateModified":"2026-02-21T10:24:33.843Z","description":"The virus continues to spread in Liberia","url":"https://time.com/3429763/ebola-deaths/","keywords":["ebola","Infectious Disease","Liberia"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltbd15fbb0efdd95fc/6986a55dcd6848477a096a43/ebola-west-africa.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Nolan Feeney","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/nolan-feeney/"}],"articleSection":"Health","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltbd15fbb0efdd95fc/6986a55dcd6848477a096a43/ebola-west-africa.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675,"headline":"NIGERIA-SAUDI-RELIGION-ISLAM","caption":"NIGERIA-SAUDI-RELIGION-ISLAM","creditText":"Pius Utomi Ekpei—AFP/Getty Images","representativeOfPage":true}],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/section/health/","name":"Health"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"/tag/ebola/","name":"ebola"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":3,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/3429763/ebola-deaths/","name":"West Africa's Ebola Death Toll Tops 2,900"}}]}] ```