WHO: Ebola death toll rises to more than 4,000
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By JONATHAN PAYE-LAYLEH and ROBBIE COREY-BOULET
MONROVIA, Liberia (AP) — Liberian lawmakers on Friday rejected a proposal to grant President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf the power to further restrict movement and public gatherings and to confiscate property in the fight against Ebola. One legislator said such a law would have turned Liberia into a police state.
The proposal's defeat came as the World Health Organization once again raised the death toll attributed to the Ebola outbreak. The Geneva-based U.N. agency said that 4,033 confirmed, probable or suspected Ebola deaths have now been recorded.
All but nine of them were in the three worst-affected countries, Liberia, Sierra Leone and Guinea. Eight of the rest were in Nigeria, with one patient dying in the United States.
On Friday, David Nabarro, the U.N. special envoy for Ebola, said the number of Ebola cases is probably doubling every three-to-four weeks and the response needs to be 20 times greater than it was at the beginning of October.
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In this photo taken Thursday, Oct. 9, 2014, Liberians stage a protest outside the National Assembly against the government not doing enough to fight Ebola virus in Monrovia, Liberia. The presidents of three Ebola-stricken West African nations made urgent pleas for money, doctors and hospital beds Thursday and representatives of nations gathered for financial meetings promised more help. (AP Photo/Abbas Dulleh)
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Read the signs. The protesters are not, as the caption says, protesting against the government for not doing enough against Ebola. 
