Russia continues to contribute to the fight against epidemic disease caused by the Ebola virus. According to reliable information, the Deputy permanent representative to the United Nations Dmitry Maksimychev, in General, Moscow has a view to transfer for these purposes more than 40 million dollars. According to him, Russia has not only economic but also technical assistance to affected States. "The total volume of our assistance with regard to the planned contributions by the world food programme, UNICEF, the world health organization, the world Bank, a multilateral trust Fund to respond to the Case, to Finance humanitarian projects in the affected by the virus States will be over 40 million dollars," he said. The diplomat said that in West Africa employs domestic transport companies and epidemiologists. He recalled that in early August in Guinea was opened epidemiological hospital, with a capacity of 200 beds, which is designed for the provision of medical services to a decent level of patients as a Case, and other diseases." Maksimychev direct the attention that the Russian side also pays attention to strengthening public health systems in the affected States, TASS informs. As part of this effort, January 17, Guinea centre was opened microbiological research and treatment of epidemic diseases, which is intended for diagnostics and treatment and care of infectious and dangerous disease and is one of the most modern medical facilities to combat acute viral diseases in West Africa. According to him, the medical center at the initial turn of their own work will focus on the treatment of patients with Ebola. "A significant contribution is provided by the Russian Federation in the research of the virus. The work on creation of immunobiological substances for the treatment of Ebola is a vaccine and immunoglobulins, the study highly sensitive test systems for the diagnosis of the disease, which has been successfully applied in the affected countries," said the diplomat. At the same time, according to reliable information from the world health organization, the number of victims fever is about 8.6 thousand people, more than 21.6 thousand infected. A large part of fatalities in Liberia, Sierra Leone and Guinea.