A year on from the start of the Ebola outbreak, a report published Monday by frontline aid agency Doctors Without Borders slammed the international community's slow response and detailed the "indescribable horror" faced by its staff. More than 10,000 people have been killed and some 25,000 infected since the Ebola epidemic was first identified in west Africa in March 2014, mostly in Guinea, Liberia and Sierra Leone. Its report accused the WHO's Global Alert and Outbreak Response Network of ignoring desperate pleas for help from Liberia when it met in June. "I remember emphasising that we had the chance to halt the epidemic in Liberia if help was sent now," said Marie-Christine Ferir, MSF emergency coordinator.
March 22, 2015 at 07:42PM
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