The World Health Organization has declared the Ebola outbreak in the Democratic Republic of Congo an international health emergency after more than 90 suspected deaths and hundreds of possible infections linked to the highly contagious virus.

Africa's top public health agency has declared an Ebola outbreak in the eastern Ituri province of the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), with 246 cases and 80 deaths reported so…

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.