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‘No vaccine… no treatment’: Experts raise alarm over rare strain of Ebola spreading through Africa as WHO declares global health emergency

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The WHO declared the outbreak a global health emergency after cases spread from the Democratic Republic of Congo into neighbouring Uganda. Pictured: A health worker at an Ebola transit centre in Beni in North Kivu province, Democratic Republic of the Congo, in May 2019

The deadly Ebola virus rampaging through central Africa is a rare strain that has no approved vaccine or targeted treatment, experts have warned. Read More

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