The agency added that the outbreak, with around 246 cases and 80 deaths, does not meet the criteria of pandemic emergency.

The World Health Organization on Sunday declared an Ebola outbreak in the Democratic Republic of Congo and Uganda a “public health emergency of international concern,” posing risks to neighboring countries.

A new Ebola outbreak in Congo has spread to Uganda, prompting the World Health Organization to determine it a "public health emergency of international concern."

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A new Ebola outbreak in the Democratic Republic of the Congo has led to about 246 suspected cases and 65 deaths in Ituri province, prompting an urgent response from Africa CDC and global health

Africa's top public health agency said on Friday that ​there was a confirmed Ebola outbreak in Democratic Republic of Congo's Ituri province, with 65 deaths out of 246 suspected ​cases so far, and Uganda's health ministry said a Congolese ⁠man ⁠had died in Kampala ⁠of ​Ebola Bundibugyo.

Dr. Craig Spencer, who survived Ebola in 2014, talks about the new outbreak of the virus in Congo and the hantavirus response in the US.

Doctors are monitoring an Ebola epidemic in Africa that may be to blame for dozens of deaths so far. Lilia Luciano reports and spoke with a U.S. doctor who recovered from the virus.