More than 120 health workers have died of Ebola: WHO

A woman looks at the obituary notices for medical staff who have died from the Ebola virus at the Kenema government hospital in Sierra Leone, August 16, 2014. By Carl de Souza (AFP/File)

Geneva (AFP) - More than 120 health workers have died of Ebola across West Africa, the World Health Organization said on Monday, claiming the epidemic had affected an "unprecedented number of medical staff".

In a statement, the WHO said more than 240 health care workers working in Guinea, Liberia, Nigeria, and Sierra Leone have developed the disease with "more than 120" succumbing to the epidemic.