Too many blind spots and weak links in places in africa and elsewhere. We have large amounts of travel and animal human interface and large members of people. All three of the cdc components and all of the components are so important. The cdcrelated components are domestic and stopping ebola and preventing the next ebola through the global work. I know its a few weeks ago and they are four individuals from cdc in guinea. France is taking the lead on Ebola Response in this country because the United States needs to take a more leadershipactive role or does it have the capacity to do so . Excuse me. For the cdc specific response, we provide a comprehensive Public Health approach in each country. As of today, we have approximately 175 staff on the ground. We have the most staff in sierra leone. We also have more than 20 staff or roughly 20 in guinea. We get the french speaking staff and we have 12 as of today dealing with that cluster and trying to stop it at the source. What are about en
They are almost complete and they are very optimistic that they start next phase of the trial with both of those vaccines in west africa. This slide indicated that there was a third company, but they were not expected to engage in phase one trials until the fall of 2015 which is a substantial ways away from where we are today. There other potential vaccine candidates in the pipeline. We are supporting some of those. They are behind this timeline and we are right now focused on trying to figure out if these vaccines are and effective and if they are, get them into use to control the epidemic in west africa. Part of the emergency funding request will be 157 million for barta to continue to accelerate the development and manufacturing of vaccines and therapeutics for the outbreak. My understanding from talking to the folks at new link genetics is these Clinical Trials that have been ongoing at walter reed and the national sn institute of allergy and Infectious Disease, there is good rappo
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
Three quarters of the cdc component is to strengthen the Warning Systems detection, Laboratory Networks and others. There are funds to respond r57dly and prevent where possible. Covering the u. S. , we have made progress. We are doing it through a series of levels. Each requires significant investments. Stopping it at the source. Screening travellers when they leave africa, when they arrive to the u. S. Tracing each traveller for 21 days in all of the 50 states. The states are doing an excellent job. With excellent participation from custom and Border Protection which has electronically collected data in hours. We are seeing most states reaching 100 of travellers regularly according to the information they are reporting to us. This is a relatively new program. Its going smoothly. It is working on borrowed dollarsmedollar s. We need funding to support this and key measures of prevention, ke text and response in the u. S. , Public Health systems, hospitals, Laboratory Networks, active mo
Lines because the water lines were broken. All they could do is evacuate the neighbors here and then just wait for water to fight the fire. I dont think napa county or napa is prepared for a disaster at all. So but who really is . Unfortunately, we did have a major water main break just outside the mobile home park, which really complicated the firefight. We resulted, ended up going to get water tenders in to provide engines for the firefight. So it made things a little bit more difficult for us. And even once they did get here with the water tenders, they didnt immediately put water on the homes that were clearly going to burn to the ground anyway. They wanted to save it in case the fire spread to some of the adjacent homes they were trying to protect. At this point as we stand here, at this hour, still no water, no electricity for many of these folks. So even those that didnt lose their homes, have gone with friends or neighbors or somewhere else to stay tonight. We should say finall