Ebola-hit states plead for more help, WHO rebuked for slow response

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Ebola-hit states plead for more help, WHO rebuked for slow response

<p><a href="http://news.yahoo.com/ebola-hit-states-plead-more-help-rebuked-slow-094723322.html"><img src="http://l.yimg.com/bt/api/res/1.2/biB7zmqJN4GpckKDnf5.Qg--/YXBwaWQ9eW5ld3M7Zmk9ZmlsbDtoPTg2O3E9NzU7dz0xMzA-/http://media.zenfs.com/en_ZA/News/Reuters/2014-08-16T094723Z_1007970001_LYNXMPEA7F01Z_RTROPTP_2_OZATP-UK-HEALTH-EBOLA.JPG" width="130" height="86" alt="Liberian soldiers check people travelling in Bomi County" align="left" title="Liberian soldiers check people travelling in Bomi County" border="0" /></a>GENEVA/FREETOWN, Aug 15 (Reuters) - Two West African nations and a medical charity fighting the world's worst Ebola epidemic chided the World Health Organisation (WHO) on Friday for its slow response, saying more action was needed to save victims threatened by the disease and hunger. With the death toll over 1,000 and still climbing, the U.N. health agency is facing questions over whether it moved quickly enough to declare the months-old outbreak a &quot;public health emergency of international concern&quot;, which it did on Aug 8. Medical charity MSF (Doctors Without Borders), which has been one of the most active groups in fighting the outbreak, said its spread had created a &quot;wartime&quot; situation in the worst-affected states of Sierra Leone, Liberia and Guinea. Sierra Leone President Ernest Bai Koroma said his nation's only two treatment centres were &quot;overwhelmed&quot;.</p><br clear="all"/>

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