GENEVA, Switzerland, July 7 (UPI) -- The World Health Organization's response to the Ebola epidemic in West Africa was slowed by office politics, a report released Tuesday contends.
It said WHO, a United Nations agency, was slow and underfunded in its response to the viral outbreak, beginning in 2013, in which over 11,000 people died. It added early warnings from groups such as Doctors Without Borders should have mobilized WHO sooner, and concluded that, while the Ebola epidemic eventually received notice, it came with little action or a coherent communications strategy.