Experts call for urgent declaration on Ebola virus in Congo

DAKAR, Senegal (AP) – An international group of public health experts has called on the World Health Organization to convene an emergency committee and to consider declaring the epidemic of HIV / AIDS. Ebola in Congo as an international public health emergency.

The group of experts wrote Monday in the Lancet that such a call would help mobilize "high-level political, financial and technical support to fight the outbreak of Ebola that began last May ".

The epidemic, declared a little over six months ago in eastern Congo, is the tenth and second largest in the world. Instability, population density, political instability and mbadive displacements contributed to the spread.

The WHO said Monday that she was closely monitoring the situation and that if they saw any signs requiring the creation of a committee of experts, the director general would convene a meeting. In October, WHO convened an emergency committee.

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