How WHO revised its self-criticism over Ebola handling

Red cross workers, wearing protective suits, carry the body of a person who died from Ebola during a burial with relatives of the victims of the virus, in Monrovia, on January 5, 2015. Photograph: ZOOM DOSSO/AFP/Getty Images

The World Health Organisation issued a fairly profound statement of the mistakes made in its own handling of the Ebola outbreak while pointing to the way forward this morning, which dropped into my email inbox at 09.21 UK time. Then just an hour later, it issued what it called a correction, but which was in fact a substantial revision of the document.

Probably the original statement had been sent prematurely, but correcting it - and toning it down - appears to have damaged some of the good feeling generated by the initial release.

Here are the two versions, put together, to show what changed.

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