ABOVE: World Health Organization Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus (center) speaks at a meeting at the UN in Geneva on July 15.
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Update (1/8): The World Health Organization announced yesterday that the death toll from the measles outbreak in DRC has surpassed 6,000, and called for more funding to fight the epidemic.
Nearly 2,000 deaths have been recorded from measles so far this year in the Democratic Republic of Congo, exceeding the number from the country’s widely publicized Ebola outbreak, World Health Organization Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus noted yesterday (July 15) in a speech. “Frankly, I am embarrassed to talk only about Ebola,” said Tedros, who goes by his first name, in remarks reported by Ars Technica.
The numbers Tedros referred to were published in a WHO bulletin earlier this month. It states that there have been more than 100,000 cases of measles in DRC between January 1 and June ...
