World Health Organization & Jean-Jacques Muyembe-Tamfum

World Health Organization: Leading the international response, coordinating clinical trials, and issuing warnings; faces criticism over response speed.

Jean-Jacques Muyembe-Tamfum: Jean-Jacques Muyembe-Tamfum is experimenting with treatments for Ebola, offering hope for the current outbreak.

World Health Organization: The World Health Organization>>> has declared the Ebola outbreak a public health emergency of international concern and is coordinating the international response, providing experts, supplies, and guidance, though it faces criticism for delayed detection and underestimation of the outbreak's scale.

Jean-Jacques Muyembe-Tamfum: Jean-Jacques Muyembe-Tamfum, director of Congo's National Institute for Biomedical Research (INRB), detailed the botched testing and shipping of samples that delayed the identification of the correct Ebola strain.

World Health Organization: The World Health Organization has declared the Ebola outbreak a public health emergency of international concern, providing funds, dispatching teams, and coordinating global response efforts while expressing deep concern over the outbreak's scale and speed.

Jean-Jacques Muyembe-Tamfum: Jean-Jacques Muyembe-Tamfum, a Congolese virologist, highlighted that the Bundibugyo strain complicates the response as existing treatments and vaccines are for the Zaire strain.

World Health Organization: The World Health Organization is leading the international response to the Ebola outbreak in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, revising its risk assessment to 'very high' nationally and launching a $518 million plan to combat the spread. Its efforts are hampered by conflict and community mistrust.

Jean-Jacques Muyembe-Tamfum: Jean-Jacques Muyembe-Tamfum>>>, medical director of the India — National Geophysical Research Institute>>>, confirmed an American doctor was among the confirmed cases in Bunia.

World Health Organization: Leading the international response, declaring a PHEIC, recommending vaccine trials, and adding a diagnostic test to its Emergency Use Listing. Its credibility is tied to the success of the response.

Jean-Jacques Muyembe-Tamfum: Virologist who helped discover Ebola, criticizing the response as 'slow and ineffective'. His critique is influential.

World Health Organization: The World Health Organization announced a $518 million plan to combat the Ebola outbreak, providing strategic guidance and financial commitment to halt its spread.

Jean-Jacques Muyembe-Tamfum: Jean-Jacques Muyembe-Tamfum, director of the Congolese National Institute for Biomedical Research, confirmed a positive Ebola case in Goma.