The rare Bundibugyo strain, with no approved vaccine or treatment, has killed nearly 90 people and reached Congo's capital, Kampala, and beyond.

The World Health Organization warned Friday that violence is impeding efforts to contain a deadly Ebola outbreak in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), after protesters demanding the return of a victim’s body set fire to a treatment center.

WHO Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said he is "deeply concerned about the scale and speed of the epidemic," adding that the U.N. health agency will convene its emergency committee later Tuesday.

WHO chief Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus says risks from the Ebola outbreak in Congo and Uganda are "high at the national and regional levels, and low at the global level."

It would be a mistake to underestimate the ​risk posed by the Ebola outbreak, ‌the WHO regional director for Africa told Reuters on Friday, warning ​that just one case could ​spread the virus beyond the ⁠Democratic Republic of Congo and ​Uganda.

The World Health Organization declared a public health emergency of international concern over an outbreak of a rare Ebola virus in central Africa. On May 17, WHO Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus announced the outbreak of the Bundibugyo virus,

At least 131 people are believed to have died and 531 infected in the outbreak, according to health authorities in central Africa. An American missionary was among those who tested positive for the deadly disease.

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