Ebola outbreak 'pretty much contained' in Senegal and Nigeria

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Pallets of supplies wait to be loaded on a 747 aircraft at New York's John F. Kennedy International Airport September 20, 2014.

'On the whole, the outbreaks in Senegal and Nigeria are pretty much contained,' a WHO statement said. There were no new deaths in Guinea, four in Sierra Leone and 39 in Liberia.

A separate Ebola outbreak has killed 40 people in Democratic Republic of Congo, where there have been 71 cases, it said in a statement on the situation as of Sept. 18.

(Reporting by Tom Miles; editing by Stephanie Nebehay)