Kat Ley

The World Health Assembly happens every year in Geneva.

All of the countries who are members of the World Health Organisation come together and talk about what it's been doing, what they want it to do for the next year.

So it can be quite dry.

It can be quite procedural.

But this year feels a little bit different.

because everyone you go up to, everyone you talk to, at some point in every session, someone is going to say, oh, this Ebola outbreak in the DRC looks a bit worrying, doesn't it?

I'm very worried about the DRC.

The cases are well over 300.

There's been

The number of deaths, it's a very porous border.

And when they say worrying, you sit up and listen because these are health professionals.

They're used to dealing with outbreaks.

They're not really given to hyperbole.

You start thinking about that time of overcrowded treatment centres, you know, bodies in the streets.

I don't want to be alarmist.

The world has got better at dealing with Ebola.

I mean, it's something that everyone is talking about.

It's something that Dr Tedros, the director general, felt he had to address in his opening remarks.

The head of Africa CDC, which is the continent's kind of top public health body, Dr. John Kaseya, he was supposed to be in Geneva this week.

He was actually here at the weekend, but he has cancelled all his meetings and he's flown back to Africa so that he can kind of be on the ground dealing with this Ebola outbreak.