WHO, Global Community Slow To Respond To Ebola Outbreak, Agency Head Says

Agence France-Presse: ‘We were slow’: WHO admits mistakes in Ebola response
“The head of the World Health Organization conceded on Wednesday that the U.N. body was slow to respond to the outbreak of Ebola that has now killed more than 6,300 people in West Africa. ‘It is fair to say the whole world, including WHO, failed to see what was unfolding, what was going to happen in front of our eyes,’ WHO director general Margaret Chan told the BBC in an interview…” (Larson, 12/10).

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