W.H.O. Weighing Emergency Decree on Ebola
By RICK GLADSTONEAUG. 6, 201
http://www.nytimes.com/2014/08/07/world/africa/who-weighing-emergency-decree-on-ebola.html?_r=0
"The health organization said an emergency committee of international experts was evaluating whether the Ebola outbreak constituted a “Public Health Emergency of International Concern,” a classification that has only rarely been invoked to combat deadly contagions. The classification gives health authorities greater powers that include quarantining people in affected areas. The committee’s recommendations are expected by Friday."
http://www.cdc.gov/vhf/ebola/resources/outbreaks.html has information of 2000-current info re outbreaks
2014: Ebola Hemorrhagic Fever Outbreak in West Africa (Guinea, Liberia, Sierra Leone, and Nigeria)
2012: Ebola Hemorrhagic Fever Outbreak in Uganda
2012: Ebola Hemorrhagic Fever Outbreak in Democratic Republic of Congo
2012: Ebola Hemorrhagic Fever Outbreak in Uganda
2011: Ebola Hemorrhagic Fever Case in Uganda
2008: Ebola-Reston virus detected in pigs in Philippines
2007: Ebola Hemorrhagic Fever Outbreak in Uganda
2007: Ebola Hemorrhagic Fever Outbreak in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC)
2004: Ebola Hemorrhagic Fever Outbreak in south Sudan
2003: Ebola Hemorrhagic Fever Outbreak in The Republic of the Congo
2002: Ebola Hemorrhagic Fever Outbreak in Gabon and The Republic of the Congo
2000-2001: Ebola Hemorrhagic Fever Outbreak in Uganda