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UN: We Botched Response to the Ebola Outbreak
ABC News ^ | October 17, 2014 | By MARIA CHENG

Posted on 10/17/2014 7:00:19 AM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer

The World Health Organization has admitted that it botched attempts to stop the now-spiraling Ebola outbreak in West Africa, blaming factors including incompetent staff and a lack of information.

"Nearly everyone involved in the outbreak response failed to see some fairly plain writing on the wall," WHO said in a draft internal document obtained by The Associated Press, noting that experts should have realized that traditional containment methods wouldn't work in a region with porous borders and broken health systems.

The U.N. health agency acknowledged that, at times, even its own bureaucracy was a problem. It noted that the heads of WHO country offices in Africa are "politically motivated appointments" made by the WHO regional director for Africa, Dr. Luis Sambo, who does not answer to the agency's chief in Geneva, Dr. Margaret Chan.

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TOPICS: Culture/Society; Foreign Affairs; Government; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: ebola; eboulaoutbreak; un; unitednations; who

1 posted on 10/17/2014 7:00:19 AM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Yet we continue to leave our borders wide open.

Wide open.


2 posted on 10/17/2014 7:01:12 AM PDT by Cringing Negativism Network (http://www.census.gov/foreign-trade/balance/c5700.html#2013)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

I don’t want to hear those mild words of apology echoed and distorted by Obama if we don’t take the Senate: “The CDC could perhaps have improved its response, but all of our policies have been validated by the American people in this election.” /S


3 posted on 10/17/2014 7:02:15 AM PDT by Pearls Before Swine
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

And we’re supposed to trust these people and the CDC?


4 posted on 10/17/2014 7:04:27 AM PDT by Timber Rattler (Just say NO! to RINOS and the GOP-E)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Yet in the same statement said Senegal was now free of Ebola outbreak........er not sure i’d believe them.


5 posted on 10/17/2014 7:04:44 AM PDT by sunmars
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To: Oldeconomybuyer
It's rediculous to blame "porous borders" when you've repeated called for no quarantines.
6 posted on 10/17/2014 7:05:41 AM PDT by DannyTN
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To: Oldeconomybuyer
It's rediculous to blame "porous borders" when you've repeated called for no quarantines.
7 posted on 10/17/2014 7:05:41 AM PDT by DannyTN
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8 posted on 10/17/2014 7:08:21 AM PDT by DJ MacWoW (The Fed Gov is not one ring to rule them all)
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To: Timber Rattler

And continue to work 6 months a year to fund this dysfunction leading to our own demise.


9 posted on 10/17/2014 7:09:15 AM PDT by riri (Plannedopolis-look it up. It's how the elites plan for US to live.)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

But since the UN is UNaccountable to anyone, it doesn’t matter how many times you screw up.


10 posted on 10/17/2014 7:24:01 AM PDT by Phillyred
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

THE UN DIRECTORS DON’T DEIGN TO BLAME THEMSELVES

THEY THROW THE BRAVE PEOPLE IN THE FIELD, SAVING LIVES, UNDER THE BUS.

PITIFUL BASTARDS


11 posted on 10/17/2014 8:35:14 AM PDT by golux
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