His discovery of the worlds highest rate of Prostate Cancer in jamaica has been internationally recognized and published in numerous turtles and textbooks. He and his wife founded shield, which is dedicated to building a medical school in liberia, training doctors in various surgical specialties, and providing loan forgiveness for liberian doctors who have trained in the United States and would like to go back and treat patients in liberia. He has been involved in treating ebola in africa since the early 1990s. Mr. Isaacs, please proceed. Thank you. Chairman smith, esteemed members of the council, fellow guests of this committee. I am privileged to testify before you today on the ebola developments of the Ebola Outbreak in west africa and purse experience and response there. I will read this one page so i do not forget to say anything and then i will put the script away to say things that need to be said. Mertens purse has 30 years dedicated to humanitarian relief. We have worked in ov
Looking at one facility or multiple facilities or where the facilities will be, that is a critical issue for us to determine in the coming days. Treatment centers are important to support. Treatment centers as you point out are very important to support. I was speaking with the american from sierra leone and speaking about simple things like giving them cell phones to talk to their family or things that they can do while there was very important. And if patients dont believe that they will be well treated in the Treatment Centers they wont come in and may continue to spread it in the communities. Good quality care is important. In terms of testing you are absolutely correct. As you know, mr. Chairman, with support from the c. D. C. Has represented crowiate the african sew tiety for laboratory and that has for the First Time Ever had high Quality Laboratories established all over africa. The countries have not been the focus countries so they have limited activities in the a area scalin
Or was discovered in 1976 and has killed 90 of its victims in some past outbreaks. Since march of this year, there have been more than 1700 cases of ebola, including more than 900 fatalities in guinea, liberia, sierra leone, and nigeria. This time, the average fertility rate in this outbreak is fromated at 55 , ranging 74 in guinea 242 in sierra leone. Ratessparity in mortality are partially linked to the capacity of governments to treat and contain the disease and Capita Health expending by effective governments. There is also concern giving given modern air travel and the latency time of the disease that the virus will jump borders and threat lies elsewhere in africa and even here in the United States. ,n my own state of new jersey and a hospital just a few hundred yards from my district office, precautions were taken. A person who had traveled from west africa Begin Manifesting symptoms including a high fever. He was put in isolation. Thankfully it was not ebola and the patient has