“They did not understand the urgency of the situation.” The World Health Organization (WHO) has been accused of mismanagement after 18 million doses of yellow fever vaccine, out of a total of 18 million , disappeared from shipments​ to Angola amid the biggest epidemic of the disease in decades . In addition, some vaccines were sent to uninfected areas and others arrived without syringes or weren't kept cold enough for effective use. The disease has spread to neighbouring Angola and the region is estimated to need more than a million doses, far higher than the 40 million already sent.
The World Health Organization (WHO) has been accused of mismanagement after 18 million doses of yellow fever vaccine, out of a total of 18 million , disappeared from shipments​ to Angola amid the biggest epidemic of the disease in decades . In addition, some vaccines were sent to uninfected areas and others arrived without syringes or weren't kept cold enough for effective use. The disease has spread to neighbouring Angola and the region is estimated to need more than a million doses, far higher than the 40 million already sent.