West Africa: Ebola Over, but WHO Failure Pinned On Politicians

15 January 2016

Just as the World Health Organization (WHO) celebrates the end of the Ebola epidemic in West Africa, an academic paper says governments "bear the bulk of responsibility" for the UN body's failures during the 2014 Ebola outbreak.

Yesterday (14 January), the WHO declared the end of the most recent outbreak in Liberia. All three affected countries in the regions - Guinea, Liberia and Sierra Leone - are now officially Ebola-free, but remain at "high risk" of flare-ups, the agency warns.

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