A Salt Lake immigration lawyer, Aaron Tarin, said his office was dealing with about five cases per week involving Mr. Alcala's former clients.
The number of new cases per week has averaged around 120 for the past three weeks in Guinea, Liberia and Sierra Leone, the lowest level since July.
Given this, and the fact that current estimates predict the rate of infection will rise to 10,000 cases per week by December, it is vital that the lessons of how to defeat Ebola are learned quickly.
There are more than 759 cases across 60 sites since the first ones were confirmed in March – that's almost 50 known cases per week and a 20% increase in cases since 23 June.
Between late August and 16 September, new cholera cases per week have dropped from 2,110 to 1,418 in Sierra Leone, and from 1,152 to 346 in neighbouring Guinea, the UN Office for the Co-ordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) said in a report.
Although the outbreak began to level off at around 1,000 new cases per week in October, WHO officials warned there could be up to 10,000 per week two months later.No big study focused on changes in behaviour, such as a rise in safe burials, now credited with checking the outbreak.
Even if it is confirmed, 1,000 cases per week is still no cause for celebration.
For most of 2011 and 2012, cholera levels remained high, up to 14,000 cases per week.
Plus, even 290 cases per week makes Haiti's the worst cholera outbreak in the world, Ivers notes.
But in 2013 the numbers dropped, and Haitian clinics now record about 290 cases per week; perhaps hundreds of others contract cholera but don't seek treatment.
There were only 12 cases one week in May, for instance, but the virus bounced back to more than 30 cases per week in July.
