The World Health Organisation (WHO) has declared the Ebola outbreak in West Africa to be an international public health emergency that requires an extraordinary response to stop its spread.
WHO declared similar emergencies for the swine flu pandemic in 2009 and for polio in May.
The WHO chief, Dr Margaret Chan, said the announcement on Friday is “a clear call for international solidarity” but acknowledged that many countries would probably not have any Ebola cases.
“Countries affected to date simply do not have the capacity to manage an outbreak of this size and complexity on their own,” Chan said at a news conference in Geneva.
Strange thing is that the Liberians believe that Ebola is a myth.
Those Nigerian students coming fresh in September for school… beware..