--- title: Ebola: W.H.O. Says New Cases Could Hit 10,000 Per Week description: The World Health Organization said Tuesday that up to 10,000 new cases of Ebola could be seen each week in two months canonical: https://time.com/3505982/ebola-new-cases-world-health-organization/ author: Justin Worland article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2014-10-14T13:40:47.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-08-04T08:00:28.735Z article:section: Health og:title: W.H.O.: New Ebola Cases Could Hit 10,000 Per Week og:description: The current outbreak's death rate has risen to 70% og:url: https://time.com/3505982/ebola-new-cases-world-health-organization/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt4c71d410ede50a01/698760a155a859d899a83382/ebola-sierra-leone.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 2560 og:image:height: 1440 og:image:alt: Members of a burial team wearing protective gear transfer the body of 4-day-old Diana Dormeyan, named for her mother who died shortly after giving birth, to a graveyard adjacent to the Bong County Ebola Treatment Unit near Gbarnga. og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: W.H.O.: New Ebola Cases Could Hit 10,000 Per Week twitter:description: The current outbreak's death rate has risen to 70% twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt4c71d410ede50a01/698760a155a859d899a83382/ebola-sierra-leone.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # W.H.O.: New Ebola Cases Could Hit 10,000 Per Week > Sponsored content. 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CDC Officer Rebecca Merrill with a look at what she has packed for her trip to Liberia to fight ebola_  by [Justin Worland](https://time.com/author/justin-worland/)  ## Justin Worland Senior Correspondent Oct 14, 2014 1:40 PM UTC  Members of a burial team wearing protective gear inter the body of 4-day-old Diana Dormeyan, named for her mother who died shortly after giving birth, at a graveyard adjacent to the Bong County Ebola Treatment Unit near Gbarnga, Liberia, Oct. 8, 2014. Members of a burial team wearing protective gear inter the body of 4-day-old Diana Dormeyan, named for her mother who died shortly after giving birth, at a graveyard adjacent to the Bong County Ebola Treatment Unit near Gbarnga, Liberia, Oct. 8, 2014. Daniel Berehulak—The New York Times/Redux  by [Justin Worland](https://time.com/author/justin-worland/)  ## Justin Worland Senior Correspondent Oct 14, 2014 1:40 PM UTC A World Health Organization official [said](http://bigstory.ap.org/article/77bf113e7b314fa7aa2ec891c2e7c7b9/who-10000-new-ebola-cases-week-could-be-seen) Tuesday that up to 10,000 new cases of Ebola could be seen each week in two months, marking a steep rise from the nearly 1,000 new cases — suspected, probable and confirmed — that have appeared each of the past four weeks. **(**[**PHOTOS: See How A Photographer Is Covering Ebola’s Deadly Spread**](http://lightbox.time.com/2014/10/02/ebola-virus-liberia-daniel-berehulak-nyt/#1)**)** Without an increased commitment to fighting the virus within 60 days, “a lot more people will die,” said Bruce Aylward, the organization’s assistant director-general, according to the Associated Press. Speaking at a news conference in Geneva, Aylward also said the death rate in the current outbreak was now at 70%, well above the earlier estimate of 50%. **(**[**PHOTOS: Inside the Ebola Crisis: The Images That Moved Them Most**](http://lightbox.time.com/2014/10/02/inside-the-ebola-crisis-the-images-that-moved-them-most/#1)**)** This year’s Ebola outbreak, the deadliest on record and largely concentrated in Liberia, Guinea and Sierra Leone, has killed nearly 4,000 people. The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention estimated last month that the total number of cases could reach 1.4 million by January 2015 if proper efforts are not instituted to curb it. \[[_AP_](http://bigstory.ap.org/article/77bf113e7b314fa7aa2ec891c2e7c7b9/who-10000-new-ebola-cases-week-could-be-seen)\] ## Transcript [ MUSIC ] Hi, I'm Rebecca. I'm an EIS Officer at CDC. And on Tuesday I'm going to Liberia to help with the Ebola epidemic response. So I picked up this case. And in it I'm going to bring a lot of equipment that includes. GPS systems, mechanisms to help us create Internet connection when we're out in the rural field. Gear that helps us develop radio blurbs. And it'll house our computers, a satellite phone, a GPS unit. So that we know where we are at all times and we can report back. Always a bug, a bug hut, as they call it. So we're gonna be bringing our own. Tent of sorts. The equipment for personal protective equipment is PPE. And gloves, masks, gowns, and hats, and, you know, eye protection equipment. We carry it to be on the safe side, but our goal is not to go out and actually treat patients. We're there to really work with the community. These to help them, you know, embrace the methods that they can then take on to reduce the spread of the disease. 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