Eastern Congo residents sew masks at home and pray that the disease will not reach them; an American doctor who volunteered for an aid organization has tested positive and will be treated in Germany

The WHO declared the Ebola disease outbreak a public health emergency of international concern, after more than 300 suspected cases and 88 deaths in Congo and two in neighboring…

The director general of the World Health Organization (WHO), Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, warned on Tuesday before the World Health Assembly meeting in Geneva that “the magnitude…