World at risk of Ebola 'plane plague' spreading on flights: 'Everyone's at risk'

Author: Jamie Micklethwaite

EBOLA could be spread to anywhere in the world on a plane, after WHO declared the disease a global emergency.

Ebola was declared a global emergency after the first fatal case was reported in a city of one million inhabitants.

Citizens of Goma, in the Democratic Republic of Congo, are living in fear after the deadly disease arrived on their doorstep.

Government officials have urged world leaders to send aid as they combat the crisis.

Olivia Ajira Kwinja, World Vision’s Humanitarian and Emergency Affairs Manager in the DRC, told Daily Star Online the disease needed to be tackled at a local level to stop it.
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