Via Mediacongo.net: Ebola in DRC: it may "soon be a global emergency". Excerpt from a Google translation, slightly edited:
The UN has launched an appeal for two million dollars to fight the epidemic of Ebola hemorrhagic fever, a highly contagious disease that has killed 14 people since mid-August in the northeast of the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC).
The World Health Organization (WHO) and the United Nations Fund for Children (UNICEF) launched a "joint appeal for funds to support this struggle which totaled $ 2 million," Dr. Léodegal Bazira, WHO Representative in the DRC told the media on Wednesday.
"We also call on all partners to join in the fight against this epidemic, which if not controlled quickly, is a public health emergency that can quickly be global," he said.
Funds should help "the government to organize this struggle to provide means to fight this. It is a struggle that many countries, not only the DRC cannot undertake alone," the UN representative stressed.
