id author title date pages extension mime words sentences flesch summary cache txt cord-021479-hwg9rqnq Oldstone, Michael B.A. Ebola’s Scorecard: Failure of the WHO and the International Community 2017-07-21 .txt text/plain 5301 318 61 A critique by a group of 20 experts from the Harvard Global Health Institute and the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine found that "The lack of capacity in Guinea to detect the virus for several months was a key failure, allowing Ebola eventually to spread to bordering Liberia and Sierra Leone, underscoring inadequate communication and arrangements between governments and the WHO to share, validate, and respond robustly to information on outbreak." 4 Indeed, after Ebola was initially identified, it still spread through the capital cities of Guinea and Liberia, and within 2 months appeared in other major cities and their international airports. Without sufficient protective gear, and initially without widespread understanding of the virus, hundreds of health workers themselves became ill and died." 4 In summary, early in the course of the Ebola infection, before its massive outbreak, Doctors Without Borders warned the WHO about the potential threat. ./cache/cord-021479-hwg9rqnq.txt ./txt/cord-021479-hwg9rqnq.txt