GENEVA
The World Health Organization said Monday much work was needed to get to "zero cases" in Ebola although it met its December 1 target in Liberia and Guinea it planned two months ago to end the outbreak.
The international health organization launched a campaign towards eradicating the deadly disease in West Africa by isolating 70 percent of the people infected with the deadly virus and safely burying 70 percent of the Ebola deaths.
"We've reached an important milestone along the way but that is not going to get you to zero," Bruce Aylward who is in charge of the WHO's response to the Ebola outbreak told reporters in Geneva.
"You eventually have to get a 100 percent safe burial, you eventually have to get a 100 percent of people into treatment facilities...to get this finished," he added.
So far, 6,928 people have died from Ebola and more than 16,000 have been infected, according to WHO's latest report.
Aylward also warned that there was still a huge risk that the deadly disease could spread to other parts of the world.
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