The World Health Organization on Wednesday declared the Ebola outbreak in the Democratic Republic of Congo a global public-health emergency, a rare move that seeks to mobilize more funds to stop the deadly virus nearly a year after it first took hold in a region marked by decades of conflict. The United Nations public-health agency convened its emergency committee three days after health authorities disclosed a first Ebola case in Goma, a city by Congo’s eastern border with Rwanda. The city of about 2 million people hosts...

Source: Wall Street Journal July 17, 2019 18:02 UTC