Bloomberg: The World Health Organization has declared the Ebola outbreak in the Democratic Republic of Congo and Uganda an international health emergency.

The WHO warned that a rare strain of the virus, for which there is no approved vaccine or treatment, may have already spread much more widely than has been detected.

"The Ebola virus outbreak in Africa has reached the threshold for declaring the highest level of alert under the International Health Regulations due to cross-border spread, unexplained clusters of deaths, and high uncertainty about the real scale of the epidemic," the WHO said on Sunday.

The Ebola virus is transmitted through direct contact with the bodily fluids of infected people or animals. Ebola is not considered a respiratory virus and is not typically spread through airborne droplets like the flu or COVID-19.

Symptoms include high fever, weakness, muscle pain, vomiting, diarrhea, and bleeding. In severe cases, the virus causes organ failure and death.

The largest Ebola outbreak in history occurred in 2014-2016 in West African countries — primarily Guinea, Sierra Leone, and Liberia. According to the WHO, more than 28,000 people were infected and over 11,000 died.

The Ebola virus was first identified in 1976 in Zaire [now the Democratic Republic of Congo]. The virus was named after the Ebola River, located near the area of the first recorded outbreak of the disease.

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