We were recently in southern Africa camping for a couple of months and while we were there we saw posters at the Malawi/Zambia border warning of a new outbreak of Ebola on the continent. Now in Paris reading the news this morning and great to see news that the US is ramping up its contribution to efforts at helping with ebola victims and to halt the spread of the disease.
Hate to say it but this is one of the few things the US under President Obama has done militarily that I could approve of.
Washington Post
Health & Science
U.S. military to lead Ebola fight
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By Lena H. Sun and Juliet Eilperin September 16 at 12:01 AM
President Obama will announce Tuesday that the U.S. military will take the lead in overseeing what has been a chaotic and widely criticized response to the worst Ebola outbreak in history, dispatching up to 3,000 military personnel to West Africa in an effort that could cost up to $750 million over the next six months, according to senior administration officials.
By the end of the week, a general sent by U.S. Africa Command will be in place in Monrovia, Liberia — the country where transmission rates are increasing exponentially — to lead the effort called Operation United Assistance. The command will help oversee and coordinate U.S. and international relief efforts while a new, separate regional staging base will help accelerate transportation of urgently needed equipment, supplies and personnel.
In addition, the Pentagon will send engineers to set up 17 treatment centers in Liberia — each with a 100-bed capacity — as well as medical personnel to train up to 500 health-care workers a week in the region.
I was involved in Austin's
Economic Conversion efforts in the 80's so am double glad of seeing this use of our military.
Will have to send a letter of support and thank you to the President for this.
Doctors Without Borders/ Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) Say Strong Response Cannot Wait
We began contributing to Doctors Without Borders/ Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) after the hurricane hit Haiti and still are most appreciative of their work.
Really have to be impressed with Doctors without Borders heroic work on Ebola.
Read some of the some hopeful posts on their Facebook page...
Doctors Without Borders/ Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) shared a link.
18 hours ago
While the resources needed to put an end to Ebola in West Africa continue to go unmet, and people continue to suffer, this young Ebola patient is an inspiration: http://bit.ly/...
Also this.
Doctors Without Borders/ Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF)
September 14
To date, 342 patients have fully recovered in our Ebola treatment centres in West Africa. Find out more about our response to the deadly virus: http://www.msf.org.uk/...
More sobering was this post:
Doctors Without Borders/ Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) shared a link.
September 12
In today's Washington Post, MSF's international president warns that"Six months into the worst Ebola epidemic in history, the world is losing the battle to contain the disease." Read the op-ed: http://wapo.st/...
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5:18 AM PT: Highly cited on Google News is the WH press release:
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Office of the Press Secretary
For Immediate Release
September 16, 2014
FACT SHEET: U.S. Response to the Ebola Epidemic in West Africa http://www.whitehouse.gov/...