Source: United Nations
Country: Guinea, Liberia, Sierra Leone
HIGHLIGHTS
• Appointment of Dr. David Nabarro as Special Envoy for Ebola and Mr. Anthony Banbury as Special Representative and Head of UNMEER
• Unless response efforts in West Africa are significantly scaled up, the WHO is predicting that more than 20,000 people could be infected with Ebola by early November
• UNMEER advance teams deploy to mission headquarters in Ghana and the affected countries