Ebola declared a global health emergency

WHO decided Congo’s deadly Ebola outbreak should be treated as an international health emergency, after the virus reached a city of 2 million people.

By Arete News - July 17, 2019

The body of a WHO doctor responding to the Ebola outbreak is loaded on a plane in Goma, Congo, after he was killed in an April attack (AN/Michael Ali)

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