WHO declares global health emergency over Congo Ebola outbreak

The Democratic Republic of Congo has been hit by an outbreak of Ebola. According to the African Centres for Disease Control and Prevention, the outbreak was discovered in the northeast of the African nation. It's not the first time that the country's citizens have had to endure the fear of contracting the deadly hemorrhagic fever: there have been 17 outbreaks, that we know of, since the virus was discovered 50 years ago. — Read the rest The post WHO declares global health emergency over Congo Ebola outbreak appeared first on Boing Boing.