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WHO says DRC Ebola outbreak not an ‘international’ emergency

The Ebola outbreak in DR Congo in August last year has killed more than 1,400 people. – EPA pic, June 15, 2019.

THE World Health Organisation said yesterday that the Ebola outbreak in the Democratic Republic of Congo does not qualify as an international threat, despite confirmed cases also in neighbouring Uganda. WHO’s emergency committee said that while the outbreak was a “health emergency in DRC and the region” it did not yet amount to “a public health emergency of international concern.”

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