WHO chief warns Ebola response must ramp up to stem DRC outbreak
Number of people killed in the Democratic Republic of Congo from disease exceeds 3,000 amid response funding gap. The head of the World Health Organization (WHO) has warned that every transmission chain needs to be identified and broken if the Ebola outbreak in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) is to be contained. Speaking to reporters in Geneva on Wednesday, Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said that until every chain is broken, the epidemic “will continue to pose a threat to [the] DRC, its neighbours and the region as a whole”. The number of people killed in the DRC by the disease exceeded 3,000 on Wednesday, according to official government data. The outbreak is the fastest-growing in history , as well as the deadliest and largest the DRC has ever experienced.
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Number of people killed in the Democratic Republic of Congo from disease exceeds 3,000 amid response funding gap. The head of the World Health Organization (WHO) has warned that every transmission chain needs to be identified and broken if the Ebola outbreak in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) is to be contained. Speaking to reporters in Geneva on Wednesday, Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said that until every chain is broken, the epidemic “will continue to pose a threat to [the] DRC, its neighbours and the region as a whole”. The number of people killed in the DRC by the disease exceeded 3,000 on Wednesday, according to official government data. The outbreak is the fastest-growing in history , as well as the deadliest and largest the DRC has ever experienced.
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Number of people killed in the Democratic Republic of Congo from disease exceeds 3,000 amid response funding gap. The head of the World Health Organization (WHO) has warned that every transmission chain needs to be identified and broken if the Ebola outbreak in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) is to be contained. Speaking to reporters in Geneva on Wednesday, Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said that until every chain is broken, the epidemic “will continue to pose a threat to [the] DRC, its neighbours and the region as a whole”. The number of people killed in the DRC by the disease exceeded 3,000 on Wednesday, according to official government data. The outbreak is the fastest-growing in history , as well as the deadliest and largest the DRC has ever experienced.
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Number of people killed in the Democratic Republic of Congo from disease exceeds 3,000 amid response funding gap. The head of the World Health Organization (WHO) has warned that every transmission chain needs to be identified and broken if the Ebola outbreak in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) is to be contained. Speaking to reporters in Geneva on Wednesday, Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said that until every chain is broken, the epidemic “will continue to pose a threat to [the] DRC, its neighbours and the region as a whole”. The number of people killed in the DRC by the disease exceeded 3,000 on Wednesday, according to official government data. The outbreak is the fastest-growing in history , as well as the deadliest and largest the DRC has ever experienced.
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Number of people killed in the Democratic Republic of Congo from disease exceeds 3,000 amid response funding gap. The head of the World Health Organization (WHO) has warned that every transmission chain needs to be identified and broken if the Ebola outbreak in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) is to be contained. Speaking to reporters in Geneva on Wednesday, Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said that until every chain is broken, the epidemic “will continue to pose a threat to [the] DRC, its neighbours and the region as a whole”. The number of people killed in the DRC by the disease exceeded 3,000 on Wednesday, according to official government data. The outbreak is the fastest-growing in history , as well as the deadliest and largest the DRC has ever experienced.
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Number of people killed in the Democratic Republic of Congo from disease exceeds 3,000 amid response funding gap. The head of the World Health Organization (WHO) has warned that every transmission chain needs to be identified and broken if the Ebola outbreak in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) is to be contained. Speaking to reporters in Geneva on Wednesday, Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said that until every chain is broken, the epidemic “will continue to pose a threat to [the] DRC, its neighbours and the region as a whole”. The number of people killed in the DRC by the disease exceeded 3,000 on Wednesday, according to official government data. The outbreak is the fastest-growing in history , as well as the deadliest and largest the DRC has ever experienced.
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Number of people killed in the Democratic Republic of Congo from disease exceeds 3,000 amid response funding gap. The head of the World Health Organization (WHO) has warned that every transmission chain needs to be identified and broken if the Ebola outbreak in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) is to be contained. Speaking to reporters in Geneva on Wednesday, Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said that until every chain is broken, the epidemic “will continue to pose a threat to [the] DRC, its neighbours and the region as a whole”. The number of people killed in the DRC by the disease exceeded 3,000 on Wednesday, according to official government data. The outbreak is the fastest-growing in history , as well as the deadliest and largest the DRC has ever experienced.