Africa: Ebola Outbreak in DR Congo Spreading Rapidly, Says WHO Head Tedros
[allAfrica] Geneva -- World Health Organization (WHO) head Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said on Monday that the Ebola outbreak in the Democratic Republic of Congo is spreading rapidly.
Geneva — World Health Organization (WHO) head Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said on Monday that the Ebola outbreak in the Democratic Republic of Congo is spreading rapidly.
He was speaking at the WHO executive board meeting in Geneva following the World Health Assembly, which ended on May 23, without the United States, which withdrew from the WHO at the beginning of 2026 after criticising its handling of the COVID-19 pandemic.
Tedros said, “The (WHO) restructuring has now been completed, the Organization is more stable, and we are moving forward.”
During the assembly, Tom Fletcher, UN Under-Secretary-General for Humanitarian Affairs and Emergency Relief Coordinator, had said that the “epidemiological context is challenging: there are not yet licensed vaccines or treatments for the Bundibugyo (current) strain.”
