WHO focus on experimental Ebola vaccines, Congo rep says

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World Health Organization representative in Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), Anne Ancia, told reporters in Geneva WHO is focusing on the international level on potential candidate vaccines or treatments which could help fight the Ebola outbreak. Three experimental vaccines are being looked at, according to officials in DRC.

This after more than 500 suspected cases including 130 suspected deaths have been identified. Only 30 cases have been confirmed in the DRC so far.

Ancia said the patient zero of the current Ebola outbreak has not yet been identified. Significant uncertainty remains regarding the total number of infections and the spread of the virus. 

World Health Organization Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus expresses deep concern over the "scale and speed" of the Ebola outbreak in the Democratic Republic of the Congo and Uganda, saying an emergency committee would meet later in the day to issue temporary recommendations.