Ebola still an 'urgent' global health emergency - WHO

The deadly Ebola epidemic in the Democratic Republic of Congo remains an "urgent" global health emergency, the World Health Organization has said.

"The public health emergency will be maintained for an additional three months," WHO director-general Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said following an emergency committee meeting.The status of a global health emergency is an exceptional measure that has been used by the WHO four times: in 2009 for the Swine flu virus, in 2014 for polio, in 2014 for the Ebola epidemic which killed more than 11,000 in Liberia, Guinea, Sierra Leone, and in 2016 for the Zika virus.

The DRC health ministry said earlier this week that Ebola had returned to Ituri province in the north east of the country after nearly 300 days without any new cases."The number of cases has declined each week for the past four weeks. But these encouraging trends should be interpreted with caution," Dr Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said.

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