The World Health Organization raises its assessment of the outbreak going nation-wide as a province in the Congo's east bans funerals and suspends the local football league.

Aid efforts intensified on Wednesday in eastern Congo to curb the growing outbreak of a rare type of Ebola that the World Health Organization said could last for months, as…

The World Health Organization said Wednesday that the risk of Ebola spreading is high at national and regional levels in Congo and Uganda, but remains low...