WASHINGTON: UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon said Friday that there is hope that the Ebola outbreak could be contained by mid-2015 by continuing to scale up the global fight against the disease.

At a press conference at World Bank headquarters after an UN System Chief meeting for Coordination to counter Ebola, the secretary-general emphasized that results are still uneven, and announced that the organization's top health officials will head to Mali where the situation is still a cause of "deep concern."

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