Thousands left to die as ebola went unchecked

Médecins Sans Frontières says its warnings that the ebola epidemic was spiralling out of control and that it could not respond were dismissed as alarmist, writes Misha Hussain

The slow international response to the West Africa ebola outbreak created an avoidable tragedy that cost thousands of lives, a leading medical charity said on the one year anniversary of the first confirmed case.

The world’s worst ebola epidemic has killed more than 10,200 people in the three most affected countries of Guinea, Liberia and Sierra Leone since March 2014, when it was first confirmed in the forest region of Guinea.