director of the global health protection center here at the cdc. >> only about 30% of countries even self-report that they are able to prevent, detect, and respond to infectious disease outbreaks. that's through international health regulations. we're working around the world to try to improve capacity so we have partners everywhere to respond quickly. >> reporter: within this organization, how many threats, if you will, are being assessed, evaluated? >> one of the things we have in our division is the global disease detection operation center or op center. let's use for example the 24-month period that we were activated for ebola response here in the emergency operations center. during that time we were tracking 350 infectious disease outbreaks in 145 countries. many of them, the w.h.o., animal health organizations, enabled