Sunday 16 November 2014

MSF should have called for Ebola vaccine earlier, says aid group veteran

A volunteer for Medecins Sans Frontieres receives training on how to handle personal protective equipment during courses in Brussels By Daniel Flynn and Robert-Jan Bartunek DAKAR/BRUSSELS (Reuters) - Medecins Sans Frontiers "wasted time" by waiting too long to call for vaccines to fight an unprecedented outbreak of Ebola in West Africa, a veteran of the medical charity told Reuters. The group's response to the epidemic which has so far killed more than 5,000 people has been widely praised by governments and the World Health Organization. While Western donors dithered and other aid groups pulled out, MSF deployed hundreds to the Ebola "hot zones" and treated more than 3,000 patients. ...




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