The World Health Organisation has revised its figures showing more people killed by the deadly Ebola virus, but the total number of cases of the disease was set slightly lower.
The WHO said that 4951 people across eight countries had died from Ebola and there was a total of 13,567 reported cases, up to and including October 29.
Earlier this week, the WHO had set the figures at 4922 deaths and 13,703 cases.
It said it had changed the figures after finding that some cases, particularly in Guinea, were not actually Ebola.
Since the latest outbreak of Ebola, the worst since the virus was first identified in 1976, the vast majority of the deaths have been reported in three nations at the epicentre of the epidemic: Liberia, Sierra Leone and Guinea, where the outbreak began.
The latest figures showed Liberia with 2413 deaths in 6535 cases of Ebola; Sierra Leone with 1510 dead out of 5338 reported cases; and Guinea had 1018 deaths in 1667 cases.
There is also an outbreak of the deadly Ebola virus in the Democratic Republic of Congo though that came from a different source than the epidemic raging across west Africa, scientists said on Wednesday.
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