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The decline in Liberia cases is contradicted in the latest reports from WHO with 439 new cases reported between 23 and 28 November. Sierra Leone also noted a sharp increase in new cases between 23 and 30 November according to the same reports with an increase of 713 new cases in that week.

By the end of November the total number of cases exceeded 17,000 since the outbreak started nearly a year ago.

On 25 March, the World Health Organization (WHO) reported an outbreak of Ebola virus disease in four southeastern districts with a total of 86 suspected cases, including 59 deaths. MSF was helping the Ministry of Health of Guinea in establishing Ebola treatment centers in the epicenter of the outbreak

  On 31 March, the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) sent a five-person team to assist Guinea's Ministry of Health and the WHO as they led an international response to the Ebola outbreak