An Ebola virus outbreak centered in the Democratic Republic of Congo is suspected to have caused more than 900 infections and 220 deaths, according to the World Health Organization.
“We are urgently scaling up operations, but at the moment, the epidemic is outpacing us,” Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, the organization’s director, said on Monday.
The W.H.O. earlier declared the outbreak “a public health emergency of international concern” and warned that it could last months, even if it was unlikely to pose a global threat.
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