The Yale scientists find that if nothing more is done, there will be more than 170,000 Ebola cases – including those that are unreported – and more than 90,000 deaths by 15 December in Montserrado, a densely populated county containing the capital, Monrovia, and which has one of the highest case rates in Liberia.
Aylward said the WHO was concerned about the continued spread, especially in the capital cities of Sierra Leone, Guinea and Liberia – Freetown, Conakry and Monrovia.
The discharging of Beatrice Yardolo – who had spent 15 days in a Chinese-run Ebola treatment centre in the Paynesville district of the Liberian capital, Monrovia – brings the west African country a step closer to declaring itself clear of Ebola.
A Sierra Leonean journalist who travelled via Brussels from Monrovia, Liberia, said passport control staff only realised where he had come from when he volunteered the information.
And last year, to add insult to injury, Monrovia was hit with an Ebola outbreak.
And these conditions are exemplified by what the UN has identified as the poorest city in the world, Monrovia, the capital of Liberia.
Médecins Sans Frontières has cut the number of beds at its Elwa 3 Ebola treatment centre in Monrovia from 200 to 60, with the number expected to fall to 30 this month.
Liberia's capital, Monrovia, is the only capital city in the world that does not have electricity or running water.
Related: Tomorrow's world: seven development megatrends challenging NGOs The Ebola outbreak in west Africa has had a huge impact on Freetown, the capital of Sierra Leone, and Monrovia in Liberia.
Monrovia was devastated by civil war and Charles Taylor's child soldiers in the 1990s.
Her village is hundreds of miles from Liberia's capital, Monrovia, and far removed from any medical help.
