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Congo-Kinshasa: WHO Calls Crisis Meeting Over Ebola
UN News, 15 October 2018
World Health Organization (WHO) Director-General, Dr Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, has called an Emergency Committee meeting on the Ebola virus outbreak in the Democratic Republic of… Read more »
WHO Calls Crisis Meeting Over Ebola
Health leaders are meeting to address the Ebola outbreak in the Democratic Republic of Congo that has claimed about 130 lives. The WHO has assessed the national and regional risk of the current as "very high", although the global risk remains low and has not called for any trade or travel restrictions to be imposed.
African Region and World Health Organization (WHO) working to contain Ebola.
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