'Ebola is the next AIDS': CDC chief warns of global health catastrophe as leaders of West African countries plead for help at crisis talks in DC

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The head of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has warned that Ebola could become a global health catastrophe to rival AIDS.

Dr Tom Frieden said: 'In the 30 years I've been working public health, the only thing like this has been AIDS, and we have to work now so that this is not the world's next AIDS.'

Since the Ebola outbreak last December, some 3,865 people had died from the disease in West Africa, according to WHO figures until October 5.