Cuba announced it will be sending 300 more nurses to help fight the Ebola virus outbreak in West Africa, Reuters reported.

The country with experience in tropical diseases was spurred to action after a session at the United Nations General Assembly in New York Thursday where world leaders prioritized the virus outbreak in Africa.

After the new group of nurses arrive there will be a total of 461 Cuban medical professionals in the affected region, helping to fight the virus which as killed more than 3,000.

A group of 165 medical professionals currently receiving training by international experts in Havana are due in Sierra Leone in early October.

The second group will be stationed in Liberia and Guinea, Prensa Latina reported Friday, according to Reuters.

Cuba educates foreign doctors at one of its medical schools for free and has tens of thousands of doctors and nurses posted in various facilities around the world.

The virus has currently claimed the lives of at least 3,091 in West Africa, according to the World Health Organization Friday.

On Thursday, the WHO said that the outbreak in Guinea, where the virus began, appears to have stabilized, according to Reuters.

But it continues to ravage Liberia and Sierra Leone, as well as continue to spread in the two newest affected countries of Nigeria and Senegal.

There have also been reports of an unrelated, and smaller, Ebola virus outbreak in the Democratic Republic of Congo.

The crisis in West Africa threatens to continue to a possible death toll of more than 1 million if kept unchecked.

Weak health systems and poverty have agitated the situation, and reliable information is scarce. Experts have said the numbers of reported deaths and cases are a fraction of the true number, since many victims are either unwilling or unable to come forward for medical treatment, Reuters reported.