UN seeks more health workers to fight Ebola

Cuba to send 165 doctors and nurses to W. Africa as death toll tops 2,400

The number of new Ebola cases in West Africa is growing faster than authorities can manage them, the World Health Organization said on Friday, renewing a call for health workers from around the world to go to the region to help.

As the death toll rose to more than 2,400 people out of 4,784 cases, WHO director general Margaret Chan said the vast nature of the outbreak - particularly in the three hardest-hit countries of Guinea, Liberia and Sierra Leone - required a massive emergency response.