What the Ebola emergency means, what it doesn’t mean, and what’s next

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By HELEN BRANSWELL @HelenBranswell

JULY 19, 2019

What the Ebola emergency means, what it doesn’t mean, and what’s next

Congo Ebola July 2019
An Ebola victim is laid to rest in a cemetery in Beni, in the Democratic Republic of the Congo.JEROME DELAY/AP
Finally, the World Health Organization has declared the world’s latest Ebola outbreak a global health emergency. But what, exactly, does that mean?

The decision this week by the WHO’s director-general, Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, to designate the long-running Ebola outbreak in the Democratic Republic of the Congo a public health emergency of international concern generated a flood of news coverage.

Some global health experts have been vociferously insisting for months now that a PHEIC (pronounced FAKE or PHEEK) needed to be declared. They say it could improve the outbreak response and speed an end to the crisis.

But how might it do that? Read on.

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