Urgently U.S. President Barack Obama has warned that the spread of the Ebola epidemic. If African countries failed to combat this would be “a threat to global security.”
U.S. President Barack Obama has called on the international community with clear words to the fight against Ebola. “Here’s the hard truth: In West Africa, Ebola has become an epidemic, as we have not seen them yet,” Obama said during a visit to the center for the prevention and control of diseases (CDC) in Atlanta, where he a US Action Plan presented against the epidemic. “She gets out of control. It gets worse. It spreads rapidly and exponentially. Today thousands of people are infected in West Africa. This number can quickly grow to tens of thousands. We must act quickly, we must not dawdle.”
If the epidemic is not stopped, hundreds of thousands of people could even infect, so the U.S. President.
This would have profound political, economic and security consequences, not only for the local people: “If these countries collapse when their economy collapses, people panic, then that is a potential threat to global security,” said Obama.
In the White House he met Kent Brantly, the US-American physician to be cured of his Ebola disease. The doctor had looked in Liberia for the Christian aid organization Ebola patients. Here, he and the nun Nancy Writebol had infected with dangerous pathogens. Both were successively reacted with a special plane to Atlanta, where they were treated in the Emory University Hospital with the experimental agent ZMapp.
The United States wants to send 3,000 troops to West Africa to help build health centers to combat the deadly disease. In the next six months will be trained in dealing with Ebola per week up to 500 local nurses and medicines and disinfectants are distributed to hundreds of thousands of households.
In the center of the efforts Liberia worst affected stands. In the local capital Monrovia a command center should be created to coordinate the application.
In a dramatic appeal, the Liberian Ambassador Ethel Davis called on the world to help in the fight against Ebola. Your country is helpless: “Our health care system is overloaded at the moment.”
To stop the further spread of the disease, the United Nations will need about a billion dollars.
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