WHO director-general is profoundly concerned after visit to Ebola outbreak area

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The WHO director-general returned from the Democratic Republic of the Congo deeply alarmed by what he witnessed during the Ebola outbreak, which has already become the third largest on record with at least 70 cases since May. In an exclusive interview with STAT, Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus described himself as "really worried" about the epidemic spreading across the DRC and into Uganda, despite international designation as a public health emergency just days after the outbreak was declared. His visit marked his second trip to the affected region since the May 15 declaration, underscoring the WHO's intensifying focus on a crisis that has escalated with alarming speed.