WHO labels ebola epidemic in DRC an international health emergency

Health workers at a treatment center in Beni, Congo DRC

Health workers at a treatment center in Beni, Congo DRC Source: AAP

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Sounding a rarely used alarm, the World Health Organisation declared the ebola crisis in the Democratic Republic of Congo a public health emergency.

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