{"id":2412,"date":"2014-12-03T14:47:27","date_gmt":"2014-12-03T19:47:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=2412"},"modified":"2014-12-03T14:47:27","modified_gmt":"2014-12-03T19:47:27","slug":"belgian-expert-who-messed-up-ebola-response-africa-al-jazeera-english","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=2412","title":{"rendered":"Belgian expert: WHO messed up Ebola response &#8211; Africa &#8211; Al Jazeera English"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/news\/europe\/2014\/12\/belgian-expert-slams-who-over-ebola-response-2014123133539532845.html\">Belgian expert: WHO messed up Ebola response &#8211; Africa &#8211; Al Jazeera English<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>A Belgian scientist who helped discover Ebola in 1976 has accused the World Health Organisation (WHO) of mismanaging the current outbreak response.<\/p>\n<p>Peter Piot, an award-winning microbiologist, told Al Jazeera that &#8220;we wasted too much precious time&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It took three months for the WHO to find out there was an Ebola outbreak. That I understand. Guinea had a poor laboratory infrastructure,&#8221; said Piot in an interview due to be aired on Saturday.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I have much more of a problem with the fact that it took five months for WHO, for the international health regulations committee, for that&#8217;s what it is, to declare this a state of emergency.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It took a thousand dead Africans and two Americans who were repatriated to the US because they were infected. There&#8217;s no excuse for that&#8230; It took too long.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Tarik Jasarevic, a spokesman for WHO, told Al Jazeera by email that &#8220;declaring a public health emergency of international cncern is not a measure of WHO&#8217;s operational response&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>&#8230;click on the above link to read the rest of the article&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Belgian expert: WHO messed up Ebola response &#8211; Africa &#8211; Al Jazeera English. A Belgian scientist who helped discover Ebola in 1976 has accused the World Health Organisation (WHO) of mismanaging the current outbreak response. Peter Piot, an award-winning microbiologist, told Al Jazeera that &#8220;we wasted too much precious time&#8221;. &#8220;It took three months for [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[223,227,232,392,878],"class_list":["post-2412","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-environment","tag-ebola","tag-ebola-pandemic","tag-ebola-virus","tag-guinea","tag-who"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2412","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2412"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2412\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2413,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2412\/revisions\/2413"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2412"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2412"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2412"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}