President Obama is
expected to announce
Tuesday that he's sending
up to 3,000 military
personnel to combat the
Ebola virus in West Africa.
Obama will announce the
stepped-up offensive
against the outbreak,
which has killed more
than 2,200 people in five
West African countries, in
an appearance at the
Centers for Disease Control
and Prevention in Atlanta.
Administration officials
said that the U.S. would
help to provide 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. The Defense
Department has asked
Congress for nearly $500
million in existing funds to be put toward the effort.
The money would
otherwise be used to
support overseas
contingency operations,
such as the drawdown of
troops in Afghanistan.
The new initiatives include training as many as 500 health care workers a
week; erecting 17 heath
care facilities with
approximately 100 beds
each; setting up a joint
command headquartered
in Monrovia, Liberia, to
coordinate between U.S.
and international relief
efforts; providing home
health care kits to
hundreds of thousands of
households, including
50,000 that the U.S.
Agency for International
Development (USAID) will
deliver to Liberia this
week; and carrying out a
home- and community-
based campaign to train
local populations on how
to handle exposed
patients.
The fight against Ebola is
considered, in part, a
national security issue
because the disease
threatens fragile
governments in Africa and
could lead to more safe
havens for terrorists.............

3000 battalion for ebola?? NA wa o,ebola don turn insurgent?

too little too late. the damage has been done

US, never talk what this ebola of a thing is all about.. Till they do, I will comment... 3000 for just Virus ??

The west appear to be taking this ebola outbreak more seriously than we are. Liberia and Sierra Leone are in serious trouble. They need all the help they can get, and they need it now. The very existence of those nations is being threatened by ebola.

Lobolintin: US, never talk what this ebola of a thing is all about.. Till they do, I will comment... 3000 for just Virus ??

You're still sleeping...half of Liberia's population could be infected in a couple of months if something drastic is not done. Thousands are getting infected every week. I guess you don't read the news.