Generally nihs role. Bart thats role to support advanced development of products. Barta is and will support the advanced development of vaccines and therapeutics and get them scaled up so that if they work they can be used in a Mass Vaccination Campaign or in therapies. Thank you. I yield back. Now recognize mr. Wax man for five minutes. Thank you, mr. Chairman. Dr. Frieden, you and other experts have said numerous times the key to protecting americans from ebola is stopping the ooh disease at its source in west africa. Can you explain the approach in west africa to contain the spread . In brief to identify patients with ebola promptly, get them isolated and cared for safely. And in the event that individuals die, have them buried respectfully and safely without spreading disease. To turn off unsafe care and unsafe burial. Thats what ef we have done until now. The size, scale and speed requires now remains daunting. Instead of dozens or a handful of cases, thousands of cases to deal wi
Message back to congress and it was please give us the resources and the funding we need to do this job. Do not cut our legs from under us. So we cant continue to say we appreciate your service and work, but yet we will not give them the resources that they need to do the job. So undersecretary taylor, you mentioned that not fully funding the department of Homeland Security would have a crippling effect on Homeland Security, could you explain how if the department of Homeland Security is not provided with the fullyear funding, efforts to prevent foreign fighters and their travel would be affected, since that seems to be a great concern on the other side, how not funding the department will impact that ability. Sir, i think the secretary has made and i have tried to make here today is working under the c. R. Flexibility and investing the threats as they evolve over time and the Grant Funding and our ability to respond to add money to the secret service for additional protection and thos
Occurring is that when people get the disease, they get scared, and they run to people they think can them. Traditional healers, centers of faiths, or friends and relatives even. And that in turn leads to the movement of sickness and disease into new communities and new chains of transmission and that has let to the wide spread dissemination of the disease and the virus. Third point, how then do we respond as the disease spreads . Well, we have to recognize it is spreading rapidly and probably doubling a number of cases every 34 weeks and that means a huge facility for people with the disease, a great increase in community centers, a lot of work with societies to help them respond to the disease and others to help get prepared. A massive social mobilization on an enormous scale. Not just in the most affected countries, but in neighbors ing countries and indeed throughout the world. This going to scale so Everybody Knows about the disease knows how to prevent it, knows where treatment i
Society actors, womens groups, ngos, the country ce teams and diplomatic community. I had the opportunity to visit two Ebola Treatment Centers, one Holding Center for patients as well as the who training center. My First Impressions have were vivid and deeply worrying. We saw how brief, tired and immensely dedicated national and International Health workers are carrying on, under he knew tremely difficult circumstances. Over 230 of these Health Workers have died in plybiera alone. We saw people and resources stretch stretched to the limit with more being done with less they can be considered acceptable. We saw families leaving for lost ones but also fearing for their own health. We saw a patient being turned away for lack of beds as the facility. We saw a woman lying dead in a street inattended. The human response is to care, to empathize, to pay respect to the departed. With ebola, this type of response can be fatal. To defeat the virus, we will have to change behavior. Excellence cea
We meet a team credited for taking out two of the rarest predators in the world. First to libya where egyptian warplanes have carried out war strikes held by isil. Its in response of beheading of 21 egyptian hostages on the beach. Egypt strikes which you can see have caused devastation on the ground, and come at a time of deep crisis. We look at how the egyptian intervention could affect the already fragile security situation there. We have reaction were Key Players Like italy that have cleared out its embassy. And this front right now in talks with cairo. Just the type of hardware that egypt needs to fight isil. And in a show of solidarity the french and egyptian president s have also issued a joint statement calling for u. N. Security Council Meeting on the crisis in libya. Well look at all these angles as we begin this news hour but we begin on the ground in egypt where there have been strikes that have killed several people including three children. Reporter egypt retaliates. The o