WHO raises concerns over Ebola outbreak, but declines to declare a global health emergency
For the second time this year, the WHO has decided a daunting Ebola outbreak does not yet constitute a global health emergency.
The World Health Organization said Wednesday the growing Ebola outbreak in the eastern part of the Democratic Republic of the Congo does not currently constitute a global health emergency.
The decision was made on the advice of a panel of international experts, called an emergency committee, that was convened to advise WHO Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus on the issue.
It’s the second time this year that a so-called emergency committee has was during a previous Ebola outbreak in western DRC that started in April and was contained by July.
