World Health Organization: an opportunity was missed to stop the spread of Ebola * Obama appointed a special coordinator

The number of dead from the disease reached 4,500, and in the meantime a British aid organization called for Western countries to send logistical military forces to West Africa * The US President calls not to cut off West Africa from the world because of Ebola

An internal document of the World Health Organization (WHO) shows that the organization admitted that it failed in its attempts to stop the outbreak of the Ebola epidemic, and blamed various factors for this - including a team that was not trained for the task and a lack of information - led by the organization's representation in Africa.
In a document revealed by the AP news agency (see the extension - the land וCanadian television network CTV), the organization wrote that experts should have understood that traditional methods of curbing infectious diseases would not work in a region with breached borders and dysfunctional health systems.

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The document titled "Timeline for the Ebola Outbreak" concludes that the World Health Organization, which is an arm of the United Nations, missed opportunities to prevent the spread of Ebola immediately after the first diagnoses in Liberia, Sierra Leone and Guinea in the spring of 2014, blaming factors such as inadequate staffing and a lack of information.

The Ebola virus has so far killed over 4,500 people in seven countries, with the most affected countries being Sierra Leone, Guinea and Liberia, and a number of infections and even deaths have been recorded in Nigeria, the USA, Spain and Germany. A fund established by UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon, with the aim of raising one billion dollars for the fight against Ebola, has so far only obtained a modest donation of $100 from the Colombian government.
Dr. Peter Piot, one of the discoverers of Ebola in 1976, claimed in an interview that took place on Friday that the organization reacted too slowly to the events, largely because of the poor quality of its representation in Africa. He also claimed that the declaration of an international health emergency only in August after a thousand people had died in an epidemic was too late, and estimated that it is possible that the organization's fear of declaring a state of emergency stemmed from the criticism it received in 2009 for a response that was considered excessive to the swine flu outbreak.
The United States, Great Britain and other countries have begun to scan incoming tourists who show symptoms of the disease. Oxfam aid workers desperately need the construction of treatment centers, special flights and engineering and logistical assistance. The great fear of European countries sending soldiers is that it is difficult to protect them from infection and the operation could cost them their lives.
Spain, Australia and Italy announced that they would not send troops due to this concern. This is despite the fact that a special military unit of medical specialists operates in Spain.

And in the meantime, in a rare move - an aid organization calls for military intervention, although it usually acts following military operations, this time both sides have a common enemy - Ebola.
A British aid organization called Oxfam is calling for nothing less than military intervention to provide logistical support to West African countries suffering from the Ebola outbreak. The CEO of Oxfam, Mark Goldring warned bAn article published in the British Independent Because the whole world will be in the eye of the storm if the eruption progresses.

An Oxfam spokesman said: "The Ebola crisis could become the biggest humanitarian disaster of our generation. The world was not ready to face her. It is very rare that Oxfam calls for military intervention in order to provide logistical support to a humanitarian crisis, however the military logistics experts have the ability and expertise to respond quickly in large numbers."

and in the USA President Obama appointed lawyer Ron Klein, a veteran activist in the Democratic Party to coordinate the administration's response to the threat of the spread of the Ebola virus in the US. This is after the administration was criticized for its slow response, and mass sterilization began, after the nurse who was infected by the Ebola patient who died in Dallas, flew on a commercial flight before she was diagnosed, and all the passengers of the plane were ordered to be tested.

US President Barack Obama said (Saturday) "We must not cut ourselves off from West Africa because of the Ebola epidemic, such a step will only exacerbate the situation." Obama fears that if a flight curfew is imposed on the residents of the area, they will avoid tests and thus make it difficult to monitor the spread of the epidemic.