Rubio says WHO was 'a little late' on identifying Ebola outbreak
US Secretary of State Marco Rubio criticized the World Health Organization for being late in identifying the Ebola outbreak. He emphasized that the Centers for Disease Control and the WHO would lead the response to the virus. The US State Department announced funding for Ebola treatment centers in the Democratic Republic of Congo and Uganda amid concerns about the outbreak's severity.
- ▪Marco Rubio stated that the WHO was late in identifying the Ebola outbreak.
- ▪The US plans to fund up to 50 Ebola treatment centers in the affected regions.
- ▪The WHO expressed concern about the scale and speed of the outbreak, which has led to 136 suspected deaths.
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A poster displaying Ebola emergency contact numbers is pinned to a tent at the Busunga border crossing between Uganda and the Democratic Republic of Congo in Bundibugyo, on May BADRU KATUMBA / AFP US Secretary of State Marco Rubio said Tuesday, May 19, that the World Health Organization, the UN body which President Donald Trump stopped funding, was late in identifying a deadly outbreak of Ebola. Asked by reporters how the United States would respond to the virus outbreak, Rubio said: "The lead is obviously going to be CDC (the Centers for Disease Control) and the World Health Organization, which was a little late to identify this thing unfortunately." Trump, in one of his first acts on returning to office last year, set in motion a US withdrawal from the WHO, which he attacked bitterly…
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