WHO Director-General Dr. Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus declared the Ebola virus disease (EVD) outbreak in the DRC a Public Health Emergency of International Concern (PHEIC) following the 4th meeting of the IHR Emergency Committee Meeting on Ebola today, 17 July 2019.
DRC has agreed to let pregnant (after the first trimester) & lactating women who are contacts of #Ebola cases be vaccinated with the experimental Merck vaccine. Some outside experts called for this last summer in @statnews & @WHO's vaccine experts recommended it in February. 1/