ATLANTA, Sept. 23 (UPI) -- The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention released an initial report Tuesday that estimates the Ebola outbreak could infect up to 1.5 million people in Liberia and Sierra Leone by early 2015.
"Extrapolating trends to January 20, 2015, without additional interventions or changes in community behavior (e.g., notable reductions in unsafe burial practices)," the CDC study projected "estimates that Liberia and Sierra Leone will have approximately 550,000 Ebola cases (1.4 million when corrected for under-reporting)."