GENEVA: Death toll in the Ebola outbreak in West Africa has risen to 887 and 1,603 more have been infected, the World Health Organization (WHO) said on Monday.

It said that between July 31 and August 1, a total of 163 new cases of Ebola virus disease (EVD; laboratory-confirmed, probable, and suspect cases) as well as 61 deaths were reported from Guinea, Liberia, Nigeria, and Sierra Leone. Three of these cases are in Nigeria and include two new probable cases -- one is a health-care worker and one is a Nigerian who traveled to Guinea -- and a suspected case in a nurse.

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