The World Health Organization decided on Friday not to declare an international public health emergency over the Ebola outbreak, despite its recent spread from the Democratic Republic of Congo to Uganda.
The WHO's emergency committee described the outbreak as "an extraordinary event" of deep concern, but said it does not yet meet the criteria to be designated an international emergency.
The panel has only used the label "public health emergency of international concern" four times since the committee was formed in 2005. Those included the swine flu pandemic of 2009, the spread of poliovirus in 2014, the Ebola epidemic in West Africa that begin in 2014, and the Zika virus in 2016.