Monday, August 04, 2014

EBOLA OUTBREAK: US Experts To Head To West Africa


The US has announced plans to send at least 50 public health experts to West Africa to help fight the worst-ever outbreak of Ebola, the BBC reports.

Dr Thomas Frieden, director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, announced the new US measures in an interview with ABC's This Week.

"We do know how to stop Ebola. It's old-fashioned plain and simple public health: find the patients, make sure they get treated, find their contacts, track them, educate people, do infection control in hospitals."

The experts would arrive in West Africa within 30 days to fight what he called the "scary" disease.

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