(Circa) WHO admits it was too slow in Ebola response

WHO said in a statement in April that the organization’s Ebola response was “slow and insufficient.” “We were not aggressive in alerting the world,” and poor communication caused confusion, it said.

Internal WHO emails show that the organization’s leadership put off declaring Ebola an international emergency for at least two months starting in June 2014, the AP said March 20. Among the rationales used in the emails was that a declaration “could be seen as a hostile act” to some West African nations.

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