{"id":23060,"date":"2026-05-21T04:21:15","date_gmt":"2026-05-21T04:21:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/who-chief-fires-back-at-rubio-over-ebola-comments\/"},"modified":"2026-05-21T04:21:15","modified_gmt":"2026-05-21T04:21:15","slug":"who-chief-fires-back-at-rubio-over-ebola-comments","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/who-chief-fires-back-at-rubio-over-ebola-comments\/","title":{"rendered":"WHO chief fires back at Rubio over Ebola comments"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The World Health Organization&rsquo;s (WHO) chief on Wednesday shot down Secretary of State Marco Rubio&rsquo;s comments alleging the agency was a &ldquo;little late&rdquo; to identify an Ebola outbreak in the Democratic Republic of Congo.&nbsp; &ldquo;We don&rsquo;t replace the countries&rsquo; work, we only support them,&rdquo; WHO chief Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said in Geneva&#8230;<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/thehill.com\/policy\/international\/5888428-who-rebuffs-rubio-ebola-claims\/\" class=\"button purchase\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The World Health Organization&rsquo;s (WHO) chief on Wednesday shot down Secretary of State Marco Rubio&rsquo;s comments alleging the agency was a &ldquo;little late&rdquo; to identify an Ebola outbreak in the Democratic Republic of Congo.&nbsp; &ldquo;We don&rsquo;t replace the countries&rsquo; work, we only support them,&rdquo; WHO chief Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said in Geneva&#8230;Read More<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":23061,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-23060","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-politics"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23060","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=23060"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23060\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/23061"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23060"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23060"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23060"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}