Tuesday, September 16, 2014
3000 US Troops To Be Assigned To Fight Ebola
WASHINGTON — The Obama administration is ramping up its response to West Africa's Ebola crisis, preparing to assign 3,000 U.S. military personnel to the afflicted region to supply medical and logistical support to overwhelmed local health care systems and to boost the number of beds needed to isolate and treat victims of the epidemic.
Hardest hit by the outbreak are Liberia, Sierra Leone and Guinea. The virus also has reached Nigeria and Senegal. Ebola is spread through direct contact with the bodily fluids of sick patients, making doctors and nurses especially vulnerable to contracting the virus, which has no vaccine or approved treatment.
The U.S. effort will include medics and corpsmen for treatment and training, engineers to help erect the treatment facilities and specialists in logistics to assist in patient transportation.
The U.S. has spent more than $100 million responding to the outbreak and has offered to operate treatment centers for patients.
While at the CDC, Obama also will be briefed about cases of respiratory illness being reported in the Midwest, the White House said. Public health officials are monitoring a high number of reported illnesses associated with human enterovirus 68 in Iowa, Kansas, Ohio and elsewhere.
Entire story and video at
http://www.pressofatlanticcity.com/news/ap/us-to-assign-from-us-military-to-fight-ebola/article_364ab3e8-3d8d-11e4-b8d4-0b51a00f28b7.html
http://www.examiner.com/article/u-s-military-to-move-against-ebola-this-week?cid=sm-facebook-091614-10.30am-MilitaryToMoveOnEbola
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I am so against sending our troops directly into this region to be exposed to this deadly virus.
The UN should be quarantining all countries where Ebola has spread.
No air travel out of the areas and border patrols should be in effect to keep Ebola from spreading to the rest of the world.
I agree. If we send 3.000 troops, how many will contract Ebola? There isn't enough vaccine for them, there is no immunization, there is no reason for them to be sent except to create a crisis and look good to the world. Sad our Prseident is distracting our military from their real purpose.
Send 3,000 workers from the CDC and the Peace Corps.
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