Ebola Still Emergency in West Africa

Despite a downward trend in new cases, the Ebola epidemic in West Africa remains an international public health emergency, according to the World Health Organization. In its fifth meeting since the epidemic started more than 15 months ago, an expert committee was "absolutely firm" that the disease still represents what the agency calls a Public Health Emergency of International Concern (PHEIC), according to WHO assistant director general Bruce Aylward, MD. http://www.medpagetoday.com/InfectiousDisease/Ebola/50921?xid=nl_mpt_DHE_2015-04-11&eun=g721819d0r&userid=721819&mu_id=5883165