The World Health Organization has declared the outbreak in west Africa an international public health emergency that requires an extraordinary response.
The World Health Organization (WHO) has officially declared the outbreak of the Ebola virus in west Africa an international emergency, reports the Associated Press.
Described by the WHO as "an extraordinary event", the current Ebola outbreak is the largest ever recorded. The virus is thought to have a death rate of about 50% and has so far killed at least 932 people across Liberia, Sierra Leone, and Nigeria.
Pierre Albouy / Reuters
Speaking to reporters, WHO chief Margaret Chan (pictured above) warned that "countries affected do not have the capacity to manage an outbreak on their own," and that the current Ebola outbreak was the "most complex outbreak in the four decades of this disease."
Two men walk past a public-health-warning billboard in Freetown, Sierra Leone.
AP Photo/ Michael Duff
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