WHO Calls for ‘Immediate Ceasefire’ to Enable Ebola Response

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The WHO Director General called for an immediate ceasefire in eastern DRC to enable Ebola response efforts. The statement emphasized that humanitarian access is crucial to stopping the spread of a deadly Ebola strain in Ituri province.

The World Health Organization’s (WHO) Director General has called for an immediate ceasefire in the eastern DRC to enable officials to address the outbreak of a particularly deadly strain of Ebola, warning that stopping transmission “depends entirely on humanitarian access”. The DRC’s Ituri province, the heart of the Ebola Bundibugyo virus outbreak, is facing “a […]