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WHO faulted for Ebola failures as Obama taps czar
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Dr. Peter Piot, director of the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, speaks during an interview with The Associated Press at his office in London Friday. Piot, who was the co-discoverer of the Ebola virus, questioned why it took the World Health Organization five months and 1,000 deaths before the agency declared Ebola an international health emergency in August. - photo by Associated Press
LONDON — The World Health Organization bungled efforts to halt the spread of Ebola in West Africa, an internal report revealed Friday, as President Barack Obama named a trusted political adviser to take control of America's frenzied response to the epidemic. The stepped-up scrutiny of the international response came as U.S. officials rushed to cut off potential routes of infection from three cases in Texas, reaching a cruise ship in the Caribbean and multiple domestic airline flights. Republican lawmakers and the Obama administration debated the value of restricting travelers from entering the U.S. from countries where the outbreak began, without a resolution.
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