A public health emergency of international concern is a formal declaration by the World Health Organization of "an extraordinary event which is determined to constitute a public health risk to other S
H1N1 influenza virus
The 2013–2016 epidemic of Ebola virus disease, centered in West Africa, was the most widespread outbreak of the disease in history. It caused major loss of life and socioeconomic disruption in the reg
Public health emergency of international concern
…SARS outbreak. Since 2005, there have been nine PHEIC declarations: the 2009–2010 H1N1 (or swine flu) pandemic, the ongoing 2014 polio declaration, the 2013–2016 outbreak of Ebola in Western Africa, the 2015–16 Zika virus epidemic, the 2018–2020 Kivu Ebola epidemic, the 2020–2023 declaration for the COVID-19 pandemic, the 2022–2023 and 2024 mpox…
Kenema Hospital, Sierra Leone
Ebola crisis: More UK aid arrives in Sierra Leone
An Ebola treatment unit in Liberia
Ebola virus particles seen in an electron micrograph