Rubio criticizes WHO's Ebola response as US continues sweeping public health cuts

[Eugene]

Rubio criticizes WHO’s Ebola response as US continues sweeping public health cuts (The Guardian)

US secretary of state says WHO was ‘a little late’ in identifying deadly Ebola outbreak in the DRC and Uganda

The US secretary of state, Marco Rubio, said on Tuesday that the World Health Organization (WHO) was “a little late” in identifying the deadly Ebola outbreak in the the Democratic Republic of the Congo and Uganda.

On Tuesday, Rubio told reporters: “The lead is obviously going to be CDC [Centers for Disease Control] and the World Health Organization, which was a little late to identify this thing unfortunately.”

His comments follow Donald Trump’s decision to withdraw the US from the WHO, a move which experts described as “sowing the seeds of the next pandemic”. Trump made the move in one of his first acts on returning to office last year. The US’s departure also led to the loss of nearly a quarter of the WHO’s workforce – about 2,000 jobs – from a total staff of about 9,400.

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/may/19/marco-rubio-who-ebola

[Walleye]

1. My outrage receptors are getting overloaded

[milestogo]

2. Fuck you, stupid lil Marco

[enough]

3. Why does he get to opine? USA no longer participates in WHO.

[AloeVera]

4. Did any reporter pose a follow-up question?

To helpfully put two and two together for apparently mentally challenged Rubio?

Silly question.

[Solly Mack]

5. Reflexive attacks. WHO has been deemed bad by them, so always attack. No matter what.

Fuck Rubio.