U.N. Agency Calls Ebola Outbreak an International Health Emergency
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Liberian nurses on Wednesday put on protective clothing to carry the
body of an Ebola victim for burial in the Banjor community on the
outskirts of Monrovia.
The United Nations health agency said the outbreak warranted extraordinary measures but stopped short of imposing a travel ban.
The United Nations health agency said the outbreak warranted extraordinary measures but stopped short of imposing a travel ban.
put on protective clothing to carry the body of an Ebola victim for burial in the Banjor community on the outskirts of Monrovia.
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LONDON — Facing the worst known outbreak of the Ebola virus, with almost 1,000 fatalities in West Africa, the World Health Organization declared an international public health emergency on Friday, demanding an extraordinary response — only the third such declaration of its kind since regulations permitting such alarms were adopted in 2007.
The organization stopped short of saying there should be general international travel or trade bans, but acknowledged that the outbreak, already in its sixth month, was far from being contained.
One major international medical organization, Doctors Without Borders, responded to the statement with a renewed call for a “massive deployment” of health specialists to the stricken countries. “Lives are being lost because the response is too slow,” it said.
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LONDON — Facing the worst known outbreak of the Ebola virus, with almost 1,000 fatalities in West Africa, the World Health Organization declared an international public health emergency on Friday, demanding an extraordinary response — only the third such declaration of its kind since regulations permitting such alarms were adopted in 2007.
The organization stopped short of saying there should be general international travel or trade bans, but acknowledged that the outbreak, already in its sixth month, was far from being contained.
One major international medical organization, Doctors Without Borders, responded to the statement with a renewed call for a “massive deployment” of health specialists to the stricken countries. “Lives are being lost because the response is too slow,” it said.
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