WHO chief warns Ebola 'epidemic is outpacing us'
· RTE.ieThe director-general of the World Health Organization said that there had been 220 suspected deaths in the current Ebola outbreak and that a delay in detecting cases meant responders were now "playing catch-up".
"We are urgently scaling up operations, but at the moment the epidemic is outpacing us," Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said, adding that countries bordering the Democratic Republic of Congo - the epicentre of the outbreak - should take immediate action.
Earlier Uganda reported two more Ebola cases, taking its total number of confirmed cases to seven.
The WHO has declared the outbreak of the rare Bundibugyo strain of Ebola a public health emergency of international concern.
Dr Tedros said he would travel to Congo tomorrow and that addressing the fast-moving outbreak was complicated by the fact that Congo's Ituri and North Kivu provinces were highly insecure and there were no approved vaccines for Bundibugyo virus.
Ebola has killed more than 15,000 people across Africa in the past half-century.