The World Health Organisation has said that more than 2,000 people have died since the Ebola outbreak in West Africa.
According to the BBC, 4,000 people are thought to have been affected by the virus, revealed a WHO document.
The disease is rapidly spreading in Guinea, Liberia and Sierra Leone in West Africa.
The data, however, does not include Nigeria, Senegal or Democratic Rupublic of Congo where a few cases had been found.