The World Health Organization has kept its highest emergency designation in place for the Ebola outbreak in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, following a second meeting of the expert committee that reviews it.
Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus told the committee on Tuesday that the epidemic is spreading at "unprecedented speed" and that the locations where people are dying show transmission chains that nobody has yet identified. The outbreak is now the second-largest ever recorded and is expanding faster than any previous one.
