DR Congo's Ebola outbreak 'health emergency' of international concern: WHO

GENEVA: The World Health Organisation on Wednesday declared the Ebola outbreak in the Democratic Republic of Congo a"public health emergency of international concern," a rare designation only used for the gravest epidemics.

WHO has on three previous occasions held off making the emergency call for the outbreak centred in the eastern DRC provinces of Ituri and North Kivu. The Goma patient has been described as an evangelical preacher who had travelled from the city to Butembo, one of the towns hardest hit by Ebola. It has a port that links to Bukavu and South Kivu province and an airport with flights to Kinshasa, the Ugandan capital Entebbe and Addis Ababa, the capital of Ethiopia.

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