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World Health Organization director general stuttered, he wasn’t asserting that countries are killing
However, a spokesperson for the organization told Reuters in December 2021, not long after Tedros made the remark, that he had stuttered.
Tedros "got stuck on the first syllable" of children," the spokesperson said. "It came out sounding like ‘cil/kil.’ He then correctly pronounced the same syllable immediately after, with it coming out audibly as ‘cil-children.’"--
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