A woman gets her temperature measured at an Ebola screening station as she enters Rwanda from the Democratic Republic of the Congo. (Photo by JOHN WESSELS) AFP/Getty ImagesTopline: Responding to a deadly outbreak of Ebola in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, the World Health Organization declared a global health emergency over the virus Wednesday, a rare designation reserved only for the most dire and serious cases. A global health emergency has only been declared four times before, including during the last Ebola outbreak in West Africa in 2014 that infected 28,616 and killed 11,310 . “A public health emergency of international concern is not for fundraising, it’s for preventing the spread of disease. Key Background: This is the fifth time the WHO has declared a global emergency.

Source: Forbes July 17, 2019 19:22 UTC