According to a WHO statement, the outbreak does not yet meet the criteria required to be considered a pandemic.
According to the WHO, the emergency requires international cooperation to determine exactly how widespread the outbreak is.
Around 80 people have died in the outbreak and another 246 are suspected to be infected in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, with one person confirmed dead in Uganda, according to the latest estimates. However, it is unclear how many people have actually been infected.
Ebola virus disease is a rare but often fatal hemorrhagic fever spread through bodily fluids.
