From Ebola to Zika: Why the World Needs WHO Reform (Daniel Chardell, CFR)

As the Zika virus spreads like wildfire across the Americas, the World Health Organization (WHO), still reeling from the Ebola crisis, has once again come under scrutiny for its management of an infectious disease outbreak. Until last year, Zika, a mosquito-borne pathogen thought to cause microcephaly and incomplete brain development, was unknown in the Western Hemisphere. But microcephaly surged in Brazil in 2015, with evidence suggesting that Zika, a virus originally found in Uganda, is the cause.

http://blogs.cfr.org/patrick/2016/02/17/from-ebola-to-zika-why-the-world-needs-who-reform/