WHO to weigh declaration of international emergency over Ebola outbreak
A special panel of experts is convening to determine whether the latest Ebola outbreak constitutes an international health emergency.
The World Health Organization has convened a special committee of experts to help guide its response to the expanding Ebola outbreak in the Democratic Republic of the Congo. During its first meeting on Friday, the group will be asked if the outbreak should be declared an international health emergency.
The announcement that an emergency committee will assess the latest Ebola outbreak comes a day after the national laboratory in the DRC confirmed a case had been discovered in Mbandaka, a city of over 1 million people.
Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus told STAT he established the emergency committee
