Pham received a plaza transfusion from dr. Ken brantly and he is the american doctor who contracted ebola in west africa and survived. And now that ebola is here in the united states, one community in our area is taking steps to prevent its spread. Our Chris Oconnell is live in morton, delaware counsel teach chris, this is an ebola task force. So whats the plan . Reporter well its basi basically top Delaware County officials getting together to coordinate a county wide response to the Ebola Outbreak. If a case were presented here in Delaware County. The 29 Member Task Force met for the first time. Its believed to be first coordinated response in our area to the deadly ebola virus. Those here today, those on the front lines police, ems, area hospital emergency room personnel, Public Health officers, School Officials, even Nursing Homes represented. The main task is sharing information and prevent at a tiff measures in learning how to respond if someone in delco is infected. All Delaware
Research hospital in order to address some of the major diseases that are endemic to the region. With tremendous wealth comes also some, some diseases such as, for example, adult diabetes, Childhood Obesity and some of those other things that qatar is now trying to position itself as a Global Leader in addressing. I hate to end tonights discussion with a mention of diseases, but its been [laughter] its been a pleasure and an honor being here. Thank you all, and my thanks again to osama. Thank you. [applause] before you adjourn, if you dont mind, i would like to say that we have professor kamrava for two more days here. First hell be appearing at the Carnegie Endowment tomorrow at 1 p. M. To give a talk and then back here at the ccas for a conference on religious and secular trends in africa, and he will also be giving a paper on qatars involvement with some of the religious developments in the region. So, please, join us again tomorrow and the day after. But for now, please join us out
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