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DR Congo Ebola outbreak 'health emergency' of international concern - WHO

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Those included the H1N1, or swine flu, the pandemic of 2009, the spread of poliovirus in 2014, the Ebola epidemic that devastated parts of West Africa from 2014 to 2016 and the surge of the Zika virus in 2016.

GENEVA - The World Health Organisation on Wednesday declared the Ebola outbreak in the Democratic Republic of Congo a "public health emergency of international concern," a rare designation only used for the gravest epidemics.

The International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies said it "welcomed" the decision.

 

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