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World📡 New York TimesBy Matthew Mpoke BiggMay 20, 2026👁 2 views

Ebola Crisis Sparks Debate Over Global Health Double Standards

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Ebola Outbreak Opens Old Wounds About ‘Saving Africans’

To some Africans, the claim that the continent’s largest health agency had already bungled its response scratched a familiar wound.

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  • Red Cross workers carry the coffin of a person who died of Ebola at a health center in Rwampara, the Democratic Republic of Congo, on Wednesday.Credit...Moses Sawasawa/Associated Press

    Reporting from Akobo, South Sudan

    May 20, 2026

    Recriminations were flying on Wednesday as global health officials scrambled to defend their response to the Ebola outbreak in East Africa.

    First, the Africa Centers for Disease Control and Prevention faced criticism when the World Health Organization suggested that it acted too slowly in announcing the spread. Then on Wednesday, reports quoted Secretary of State Marco Rubio accusing the W.H.O. of being late in its own efforts.

    Responding to those reports, Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, the W.H.O.’s director-general, said, “We don’t replace the country’s work, we only support them,” subtly redirecting the backlash toward African health officials.

    To some Africans, the suggestion that African health officials had already bungled their response to the Ebola crisis, scratched an old wound: The perception that only outsiders know what is best when it comes to deadly outbreaks on the continent.

    African health officials say they have been battling diseases on the continent for decades, and in some cases with great success. Yet, they say, those successes receive little global attention as African health workers suffer grave consequences and make life-or-death sacrifices, only to come under international criticism.

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    A national laboratory where samples from suspected Ebola cases are tested in Goma, Congo, on Tuesday.Credit...Arlette Bashizi/Reuters

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