http://www.sciencemag.org/news/2019/04/ebola-outbreak-congo-still-not-international-crisis-who-decides

Health workers at an Ebola treatment center in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, which was attacked earlier this year by armed men

No need to sound the world’s loudest public health alarm bell about the lingering Ebola outbreak in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), an expert panel convened by the World Health Organization (WHO) in Geneva, Switzerland, decided today. The controversial decision not to declare what is known as a Public Health Emergency of International Concern (PHEIC) comes as the outbreak has sickened at least 1206 people, killing 63% of them.