Ebola death toll rises as two Americans are flown to Europe for monitoring

The suspected death toll from the Ebola outbreak in central Africa rose again Wednesday, as a group of potentially exposed Americans were arriving in Europe for monitoring and the World Health Organization warned a vaccine was still months away

The suspected death toll from the Ebola outbreak in central Africa rose again Wednesday, as a group of potentially exposed Americans were arriving in Europe for monitoring and the World Health Organization warned a vaccine was still months away.

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There are now more than 600 suspected cases and 139 suspected deaths from the virus, mostly in Congo, the head of the World Health Organization said at a news conference.

“We expect those numbers to keep increasing,” WHO Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said. “We know that the scale of the epidemic in DRC is much larger,” Tedros said, using the acronym for Democratic Republic of Congo.