The World Health Organization said Friday the Ebola crisis in the Democratic Republic of Congo is still not a global emergency, arguing the epidemic that’s…
The World Health Organization said Friday the Ebola crisis in the Democratic Republic of Congo is still not a global emergency, arguing the epidemic that’s tallied more than 1,000 cases and claimed more than 750 lives hasn’t spilled over borders.
“Although there was great concern about the rising number of cases in some regions, the outbreak has not spread internationally,” said Robert Steffen, director of emergencies for WHO, said from Geneva.
WHO had convened a panel Friday to consider, for a second time, whether the outbreak constitutes a public health emergency of international concern.
It is a major designation that’s been deployed against H1N1 flu in 2009, the West African Ebola epidemic and reemergence of polio in 2014 and the Zika virus in 2016.
