WHO emergency panel meets on Ebola after Uganda deaths – The Malaysian Insight

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Published on 14 Jun 2019 5:40PM ·





An Ebola awareness sign sits on a table at Bwera General Hospital in Bwera, a border town close to Democratic Republic of the Congo in western Uganda, yesterday. The WHO is meeting today to discuss whether to declare the Ebola outbreak in DR Congo an international crisis. – EPA pic, June 14, 2019.

THE World Health Organisation emergency committee will decide today whether to declare a raging Ebola epidemic an international threat, after an outbreak that began in Democratic Republic of Congo crossed into Uganda.

The WHO panel, which was formed in 2005, has used the label “public health emergency of international concern” for only four previous epidemics.


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