Central africa and this includes the outbreaks that have been reported worldwide and have been garnered. It is actually relatively recently that this has emerged in west. And in fact this actually started around the area and this includes where siberia and liberia intersect. In an embossed the case of a 2yearold boy and this includes moving into sierra leone and liberia. And so nice chain of events, if you will, with transmission moving from very remote areas into urban areas. And that is one of the most notable features of this particular outbreak. And they are found to be over 8000 suspect cases and half are little but more than confirmed. The country that has been most affected by this has been liberia and also significant cases in sierra leone and guinea as you all know. What is most important is that most of these cases have occurred in last three to four weeks and the burden of this particular outbreak is increasing. So in the democratic republic of congo, the outbreak is actuall
Good morning. Im honored to be participating in this prestigious symposium. I will say at the outset that is the director the Research Facility we are in the business of developing countermeasures for those organisms which require high levels of biocontainment and what keeps me up at night is what happens if one of my lab workers catches this experiment. We do have medical Treatment Facilities and special containment studies unit in bethesda. We will handle cases of occupational exposure from the four teacher campus. Cdc has memory and two years ago i convened a symposium with two colleagues rick davey and lisa hensley bringing the medical directors of those various facilities together to review medical countermeasures that could be possibly prepositioned in those facilities so they would be available on short notice. It was somewhat disturbing at that time that there were no countermeasures. The best we could do was to review the literature and see where things were in the pipeline an