The Ebola virus which is said to kill 90% of it's victims, and the death toll of the virus outbreak reaching 932. The World Health Organization said on Wednesday, as overworked hospital staff struggled to quell the epidemic and in many cases became its front-line victims. Between Saturday and Monday, 45 people died of the disease in West Africa, while the number of cases in the region rose by 108, the WHO reported as it began a two-day emergency meeting in Geneva to determine whether the outbreak constitutes a public-health emergency and how to address it.

The figures didn't include additional cases and deaths that have been attributed to Ebola since then. On Wednesday morning, a man in Saudi Arabia who was suspected to have the virus died when his heart stopped and attempts to resuscitate him failed, the Saudi Ministry of Health said.

A nurse in Nigeria also died from Ebola, while five other hospital workers have been confirmed as infected and isolated, said Onyebuchi Chukwu, that country's health minister. Each helped treat a Liberian-American consultant, Patrick Sawyer, who got sick during his air travel between Monrovia, Liberia, and Lagos, Nigeria, Mr. Chukwu said.

Their infections showed how medical staff at the very heart of West Africa's fight against Ebola—many of them poorly equipped, low paid and insufficiently prepared—are becoming some of its most immediate victims. In Liberia, 15% of those who have died from the virus were doctors or nurses who contracted it at work, government records show. In Sierra Leone, where the disease has killed at least 572 people, 50 of those were hospital workers, data from Sierra Leone's government show.

As health workers die, their surviving colleagues have taken on even longer shifts, working in deteriorating conditions without overtime or hazard pay, said Michael Stulman, information officer for Catholic Relief Services.

Even with protective gear and precautionary measures, the stress of coping with so many gravely ill Ebola patients opens room for mistakes that allow the virus to spread, he said: "The doctors and nurses who are working on the front lines are working in a particularly high-risk environment. It's possible for someone to slip up and become infected. That's been a major challenge."

In the U.S., meanwhile, the Food and Drug Administration said on Wednesday it approved the emergency use of a test for the Ebola Zaire virus.

By law, the FDA can authorize the emergency use of an unapproved medical product during emergencies when there aren't other alternatives available. Otherwise, the agency says, there are no agency-approved diagnostic tests available to detect Ebola.

Spain on Wednesday sent a specially equipped Airbus medical jet to Liberia to evacuate a 75-year-old Spanish priest infected with Ebola, government health officials said.

Health ministers gathered in South Africa on Wednesday to say they were stepping up monitoring at their borders and preparing hospital isolation wards to handle potential Ebola cases in any of Southern Africa's 15 countries.

"The region remains vigilant," said Malawian Health Minister Jean Kalilani.

Hospitals there, as across Africa, now face the same weighty determination: deciding which feverish patients to isolate and handle as Ebola suspects, and which to treat for more-benign ailments.

Ebola's early symptoms, like fever, aches and nausea, are easy to confuse for a range of less-deadly and -contagious afflictions.

In the Nigerian instance, delays in identifying Mr. Sawyer as having Ebola has brought fatal consequences to his caregivers.

Mr. Sawyer's arrival on July 20 marked the first case of Ebola in Africa's most-populous nation, though medical staff didn't know it at the time: For two days, Mr. Sawyer told his caregivers that he had malaria, even though his sister had recently died from Ebola, Lagos officials have said. But blood tests confirmed Mr. Sawyer had contracted the virus.

That confirmation sparked a race to track down, monitor and, where necessary, isolate scores of flight attendants, passengers, airport workers and hospital staff who may have had infectious contact with Mr. Sawyer, who died on July 25.

City health officials believe those measures will prevent a further outbreak of Ebola in Africa's largest city, a megalopolis of as many as 21 million people, at least from the current infection, and authorities are setting up tent camps in all of Nigeria's 36 states to isolate further cases, said Mr. Chukwu, the health minister.

About our "Intelligent" Nigerians that developed the Ebola cleansing hand gel, kudos to them, because this is just a wrong way of making fast money. Please let's not allow ourselves to be deceived by this Hand gel,it's fake, EBOLA VIRUS HAS NO CURE YET!

We should prevent oursleves from contacting this virus by:

- Avoiding areas of known outbreaks.

-Washing our hands frequently.

-Avoiding bush meat.

-Avoiding contact with infected people.

-Following infection-control procedures.

-Not handling remains(dead bodies of infected victims).

May God protect us all, Amen.