UN: We botched response to the Ebola outbreak [... If we fault WHO for the early dropping of the ball, the whole world has dropped the ball in some sense, he said. Nobody is to blame because everybody is to blame. Meanwhile, Ebola has sent food prices soaring, hurting peoples ability to feed themselves in the three nations hardest hit by the outbreak, the World Food Program said Friday. Spokeswoman Elisabeth Byrs told the AP that food shortages, panic-buying and hoarding have driven up food prices by an average 24 percent in Sierra Leone, Guinea and Liberia. The price of cassava, a key staple, doubled in Liberias capital of Monrovia between July and August, she said...] By MARIA CHENG
Posted on: Fri, 17 Oct 2014 22:14:23 +0000
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