The World Health Organisation (WHO) said on Tuesday that between 7-9 August 2014, 52 deaths of Ebola virus were reported from Guinea, Liberia, Nigeria, and Sierra Leone.
It added that a total of 69 new Ebola-infected cases were discovered.
The recent treatment of two health workers, who were infected with EVD, with an experimental medicine has raised important questions about whether medicines or treatments that have never been tested or shown to be safe in humans should be used in this outbreak, said WHO.
Currently, quantities of the medicine are limited, which also raises questions about who should receive the treatment, said the WHO in a press release.
On August 11th, WHO convened a panel of medical ethicists, scientific experts, and lay people from the affected countries to assess the role of experimental therapies in the Ebola outbreak response.