The 79th World Health Assembly is underway, and it is being overshadowed by the Ebola virus outbreak in the Democratic Republic of Congo and the Hantavirus infection on board a cruise ship.

Some 88 people have died from the highly contagious haemorrhagic fever in the DR Congo, with one death in Uganda, and at least 336 suspected cases.

The World Health Organization declared the Ebola outbreak in Democratic Republic of Congo and Uganda a public health emergency of international concern, seeking to mobilize…