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Your linked article is dated at

> 17 July 2019

(people never seem to look for/check dates any more)



Coincidentally (or perhaps not), their recent article claims the same thing: https://www.who.int/news/item/17-05-2026-epidemic-of-ebola-d...

> Pursuant to paragraph 2 of Article 12 - Determination of a public health emergency of international concern, including a pandemic emergency of the International Health Regulations (2005) (IHR), the Director-General of the World Health Organization (WHO), after having consulted the States Parties where the event is known to be currently occurring, is hereby determining that the Ebola disease caused by Bundibugyo virus in the Democratic Republic of the Congo and Uganda constitutes a public health emergency of international concern (PHEIC), but does not meet the criteria of pandemic emergency, as defined in the IHR.


Its even in the pasted url!


In my defence, it was the top search result using one of the common search providers, and at least it goes to the WHO website rather than the New York Times.

Why would a search engine turn up a 7 year old reference as the top hit.

Seems like the sort of thing one could end up relying on and dead.


Ooops.

Yeah that was not intentional.




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