WHO says 139 suspected Ebola deaths in Congo outbreak, numbers expected to rise

Geneva. The World Health Organization said on Wednesday there were ​600 suspected cases of Ebola and 139 suspected deaths and numbers are expected to rise given the time the virus circulated ‌before the outbreak in Congo and Uganda was detected.

A WHO Emergency Committee met on Tuesday in Geneva and confirmed the latest Ebola outbreak of the rare Bundibugyo strain of the virus was a public health emergency of international concern but not a pandemic emergency, Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said.

“The WHO assess the risk of the epidemic as high at the national ​and regional levels and low at the global level,” Tedros said.

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