Liberia,
the country worst-hit by an Ebola epidemic, may be seeing a decline in the
spread of the virus, though the battle to contain the outbreak is far from won,
the World Health Organization said on Wednesday.
WHO Assistant Director General Bruce
Aylward said the number of burials and new admissions had fallen and there was
a plateau in laboratory-confirmed cases, though he cautioned against overly
optimistic conclusions.
"All the data point in the same direction," he told a news
conference. "Do we feel confident that the response is now getting an
upper hand on the virus? Yes, we are seeing slowing rate of new cases, very
definitely."
"We're seeing a reversal of that rapid rate of increase to the point that
there seems to be a decline right now," he said.