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Ban also visited Liberia, which has suffered the most fatalities in the outbreak with more than 3,300 victims.
A team of officials from the health organization is in Guangdong, investigating the origins of the outbreak with the blessing of the Chinese government.
The outbreak, with 5 people dead and 30 ill in six states, is thought to have been caused by a steroid drug contaminated by a fungus.
Several hundred humanitarian and healthcare workers from the UK have travelled to Ebola-affected countries since the start of the outbreak with no cases subsequently being diagnosed in the UK.
As part of those efforts, South Korean authorities were contacting nearly 42,000 people who had visited a hospital in the capital, Seoul, which is at the centre of the outbreak, with half of the country's infections happening there.
The proportion may be as low as 5 percent, according to health officials in Tennessee, which has been the epicenter of the outbreak, with 53 cases and 6 deaths, more than any other state.
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Other characteristics were similar between the outbreaks with and without sequence data.
Each of the outbreaks with typeable isolates clearly involved a single strain, which was usually recovered from the water supply system.
"I think it took a different dimension with the unprecedented outbreak, with the huge proportion, three countries affected simultaneously, three large urban cities affected simultaneously, that's unprecedented, never happened in the history of the world before".
The US has the biggest outbreak, with 33,902 confirmed cases, followed by Mexico, with 10,262, and the UK third.
Three countries in west Africa Guineaea, Sierra Leone and Liberia – have borne the brunt of the latest outbreak with a combined death toll of nearly 5,000.
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