Epidemics and disasters. We are so pleased to be here today with you. Ofare here for a discussion the urgent ebola crisis in west africa. There have been estimates in the last few days the project as many as 20,000 cases of ebola by november and as many as 1. 4 million cases of ebola by the end of january, without an immediate and massive response. In the affected countries, there is a terrible consequence and academic hardship on the ground and epidemic hardship on the ground. Ebola combines an extraordinary case fatality rate with the capacity to spread by contact, an inability to treat with medicines or prevent with vaccine, and dublin time as short as 20 days. Theres no other Infectious Disease like this. A disease once relegated to remote villages is now threatening to take hold in major cities in africa. But there are also major new efforts underway the u. S. Government and by the who, and other governments in the world. Cdc is making its Largest International response in history