We'll be running these regularly for the time being - the link to the most recent edition of the excellent daily Ebola Digest. Today's article image is a table of cases and deaths per country correct as of yesterday.

There's a huge amount of info in this excellent daily resource and we suggest you check out the source. In the meantime we've reproduced the country-specific section of their news digest below, in the hope it may be of particular interest and use to our readers.

That link again: https://eboladigest.blogspot.co.uk/2014/10/ebola-digest-thurs-103014.html

REGIONAL SURVEILLANCE

Guinea

Guinea: French researchers to test Ebola diagnostics in Guinea

French researchers will conduct trials with prototype Ebola diagnostic tests in Guinea in November, with results expected within weeks for speedy deployment, the head of France's Ebola task force said Thursday. They will include a prototype device unveiled last week, similar to a home pregnancy test, that may make diagnosis possible in under 15 minutes, a potential game-changer, Jean-Francois Delfraissy, who spearheads France's Ebola campaign, told journalists in Paris. "It will make a big difference not to have to wait for six hours, but only 15 minutes," he said, referring to the time it currently takes for results to come back from the laboratory.    

Scale of Ebola epidemic in Guinea forces WFP into uncharted territory

Guardian--Crisis forces World Food Programme to operate beyond its remit by contributing to construction, transport and communications. The World Food Programme (WFP) is facing an unprecedented challenge in Guinea as it struggles to halt the spread of the Ebola, feed more than 350,000 people and protect the progress made in tackling chronic child malnutrition over recent years, a senior official has warned.Elisabeth Faure, WFPs Guinea director, said the scale of the epidemic was forcing the organisation to operate far beyond its core emergency mission of getting $25m (£15.5m) of food to at least 353,000 people.    

Liberia

Liberia: Ebola Kills Police Commander, Eight Officers Quarantined

All Africa--Report from Nimba County says a deputy police commander has died of the Ebola Virus Disease, while eight other officers are being quarantined in Saclepea, central Nimba. The eight police officers are said to have come in contact with the late Deputy Commander Charles Scott, who was assigned in Saclepea. The NewDawn Nimba correspondent says the late Charles Scott was deputy commander for the Women and Children department of the Liberia National Police in Saclepea. Prior to his death, Commander Charles Scott had visited Ganta, according to report. The head of the Nimba County Health Team, Dr. Collins Bowah, said the late Commander Charles Scott died of a very high fever and was thus suspected to have contracted the Ebola virus.

Liberia: West Africa: Ebola Virus Disease (EVD) Outbreak (as of 29 Oct. 2014) [EN/FR]

Source: World Health Organization Country: Guinea, Liberia, Mali, Sierra Leone WHO: Ebola Response Roadmap Situation Report - 29 October 2014   

Liberia: Liberia: Ebola Outbreak, Situation Report No. 7, 20 - 26 October 2014

Liberia Highlights Ministry of Health and Social Welfare (MoHSW) has switched to a more thorough EVD reporting system more focusing on daily trends rather than cumulative totals. The new system has shown more cases and a drop in death toll. Stigmatisation of EVD-affected families, burial teams or community health workers still ongoing. Difficult road transportation continues to hobble distribution of relief supplies.

Sierra Leone   

In Sierra Leone, Ambulances Carry Ebola Patients, Big Questions

WSJ--Long Drives to Far-Flung Health Facilities Expose Dangerously Disjointed Emergency-Response System. Boarding an ambulance in Freetown last Friday, a pair of Ebola patients began what some in Sierra Leone call the journey of no return.

Sierra Leone: New anti-Ebola front man talks tough

Star Africa--The recently appointed head of Sierra Leone's National Ebola Response Center (NERC) has been outlining some of his plans to eradicate the epidemic which has killed well over 1000 people in the country and thousands more in West Africa.Former Defense Minister (Rtd) Major Alfred Paulo Conte said Thursday henceforth every dead body from anywhere in [...]

VIDEO: RFA Argus arrives in Sierra Leone

BBC--The Royal Navy's casualty ship RFA Argus has arrived in Sierra Leone to help to tackle the Ebola crisis.