(VOVworld) - Since the first case was detected last March, Ebola has claimed the lives of over 10,000 people in Liberia, Sierra Leone, and Guinea.

Death toll from Ebola virus surpasses 10,000

This is the latest data released by the World Health Organization on Thursday. But the WHO noted that the fight against the disease is on the right track. The incidence of new Ebola cases has dropped sharply, especially in Liberia. US officials said that an American volunteer healthcare worker who contracted Ebola while fighting the outbreak in Sierra Leone has been flown to the US for treatment at the National Institutes of Health (NIH) in Maryland.