MADRID: Countries across the world scrambled on Saturday (Sunday in Manila) to stem a deadly Ebola outbreak that UN officials warn is getting worse as New York’s main JFK airport prepared to screen travelers from epidemic-hit west Africa.

More than 4,000 people have died from Ebola in seven countries since the start of the year, according to the United Nation’s World Health Organization (WHO), and the disease appears to be outpacing efforts to fight it.

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