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Dec. 01, 2014 | 11:01 PM

WHO says Liberia wrongly added 1,000 deaths to Ebola toll

File - In this Oct. 1, 2014 photo, Ban Ki-moon, left, Secretary General of the United Nations and China's Margaret Chan, right, Director General of the World Health Organization (WHO) speak with WHO staff members at the headquarters of the WHO in Geneva, Switzerland, where Ban was briefed by the Ebola outbreak response operations team. (AP Photo/Keystone, Martial Trezzini)

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Summary

A surge in Ebola deaths reported by the World Health Organization at the weekend arose from about 1,000 Liberian deaths wrongly ascribed to the disease, the WHO said, and were removed from an updated data set released on Monday.

The revised data from the World Health Organization shows the three worst hit countries have suffered 5,987 deaths, nearly 1,000 fewer than previously reported.

The third worst-hit country, Guinea, has had 1,312 deaths out of 2,155 cases, the WHO data showed.

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- Ebola
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- World Health Organization
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- Liberia
- Guinea
- Sierra Leone
- Mali
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- Bruce Aylward

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WHO says Liberia wrongly added 1,000 deaths to Ebola toll

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