The official death toll from the Ebola outbreak in West Africa has topped 2,300 with warnings of a significant jump in the coming days. A Liberian minister is warning the virus is “devouring everything in its path.” The coordinator of United Nations Operations in Liberia, Karin Landgren, said the numbers do not capture the actual toll.

Karin Landgren: “I can’t say enough about just how grave this is, just how deep the needs are and just how great the challenge is going to be. The Ebola numbers that we have officially today are over 2,000 suspected, probable or confirmed cases and over 1,200 deaths due to Ebola in Liberia. But as the Wold Health Organization has warned us, these are not the true numbers. They don’t capture the true toll of Ebola. And in the next few days we should expect to be working with significantly higher numbers.”

The Pentagon is building a 25-bed field hospital in Liberia, but it will only treat foreign healthcare workers affected by the virus. Meanwhile, a fourth Ebola patient arrived in the United States this week to receive treatment at Emory University Hospital in Atlanta.