On Tuesday, the World Health Organization offered a grim revision to its assessment of the West African Ebola outbreak, projecting that the number of new infections in the countries worst affected by the virus—Guinea, Liberia, and Sierra Leone—could increase from a thousand per week to ten thousand. Meanwhile, health-care workers in the United States and Western Europe continued to address Ebola at home.
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A woman throws a handful of soil toward the body of her sister, a twenty-eight-year-old market vender who collapsed outside her home on the morning of October 10, 2014, as it is removed for cremation.
