ADDIS ABABA: Weekly Ebola infections in west Africa have dropped to below 100 for the first time in more than six months, figures showed on Thursday (Friday in Manila), raising hopes the worst-ever outbreak of the virus is coming to an end.

The World Health Organization (WHO) said it had now shifted its efforts in Guinea, Liberia and Sierra Leone -- the countries worst-hit by the epidemic -- from slowing the spread to stamping it out completely.

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