Top United Nations officials on Wednesday warned against complacency over the waning Ebola epidemic in three West African countries and emphasized the difficulty of eradicating the disease that has left nearly 9,400 people dead. Speaking to the General Assembly, Secretary General Ban Ki-moon noted that Liberia had progressed rapidly over the past month and was now reporting fewer than five new cases per week. But new cases have generally been increasing in Guinea and Sierra Leone in recent weeks, and Mr. Ban said that more than half of the newly infected people in those two countries had not been in contact with people known to have been infected.

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