![]() Johnson Sirleaf offered no firm figures and acknowledged that some victims may not be coming forward, but said: “We still believe it looks good. ![]() “We make a judgment by the number of people who are called to be carried to Ebola treatment centers, by the empty beds in the treatment centers, by the number of dead who have been buried, and all of those seem to be a bit in decline,” she said in an interview. Johnson Sirleaf dismissed warnings from the WHO that as many as 20,000 people could be infected with Ebola by next month, saying that an education campaign was curbing traditional practices in Liberia that had helped to spread the highly contagious virus, such as washing the dead by hand. More than half the dead were in Liberia, where the healthcare system was still reeling from a devastating 1989-2003 civil war. The hemorrhagic fever, which has no proven cure, has killed nearly 3,900 people in four West African countries, from a total of more than 8,000 people infected. ![]() On a tour of the villages of remote northern Liberia, Johnson Sirleaf told Reuters that she wanted to give her people hope that the virus could be beaten, though the World Health Organization (WHO) warned on Wednesday there was no evidence yet the epidemic was being brought under control. Liberian President Ellen Johnson-Sirleaf speaks to villagers about Ebola virus precautions outside Ganta, Liberia, October 7, 2014.
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