Ebola patients, we will collect additional u. S. Based contact information. Should cdc need to contact them. And finally, we will take their temperature with a noncontact they arthermometer which can bey indicator of potential infection. The focus will be on travelers coming from guinea, liberia and sierra leone, the customs agents will give each traveler a packet about ebola. Observe them for symptoms of ebola. If the traveler has a fever, the agent will refer them to the cdc for evaluation. President obama said the data of the dallas patient was proof there was no time to waste in implementing the new system. The president said as we saw in dallas we dont have a lot of margin for error. If we dont follow protocols and procedures in place, then we are putting our communities at risk. Dr. Thomas frieden of the centers for Disease Control says the protocols will apply to approximately 150 travelers a day. It makes it extremely difficult to get passengers in and out. The other airports w
We review nigerias failed efforts to bring back their girls and free them from the grip of boko haram. Also the reemergence of kim young un. We sift for clues to his extended absence from public life. And aarons here, having a look at the big falls in the oil prices. Absolutely, david. How low can they go . On monday, we saw the price of black gold fall to levels not seen since 2010. Why . Americas producing more of its own, so weve got an abundant supply around the world, and weaker demands. And were going to take a look at what these lower pieces mean for producers and for all of us, the consumer. Its midday here in london. 7 00 a. M. In washington. 11 00 a. M. In liberia, where the United Nations has stepped in to try to resolve a pay dispute in which Health Workers refuse to treat victims of ebola. Nurses and medical assistants are demanding their full pay in what they call danger money. Our correspondent mark doyle is at the bbcs new ebola hub bureau in accra in ghana. Hes been sp
It was the eventful. It was tested in a different form. It is set up to be tested. In mali and other african countries. It came out in literally up a couple weeks ago. We are now setting up for testing again advanced trial using this. The other candidate is a virus into which has been inserted the ebola glycoprotein jean. It was full be enrolled and this in collaboration with the department of defense, we are doing at the nih, other than doing it from the medical institute, by the department of defense, the United States army again, now in collaboration also with merck, you will be hearing more about that from julie. The company did involved in originating the Public Health agency of canada as i mentioned, dod with naid, they are role. America is involved in the trial, was put on hold because of people get confused about that. Four individuals had clear inflammation. That doesnt mean the end of the vaccine by any means. My house ups are very common. We saw it in a significant proportio
Number three share some future looking ideas on how we can be better prepared in the future to handle situations like these and then i would be happy to discuss these will pocket into the qanda part. The phase one trial which has been completed and published satisfactory we also have the enrolled in cities in the uk, switzerland and then molly. I say this with precision because our perspective is that we need to define what is the best storage to use in phase two. We also are planning on starting to trials in africa when including almost 3,000 subjects and the other involving about 800 in the middle of january and then the phase three where we have a commitment with the nih to purchase a piece participate in the trial and see the leone. That is what we have planned and we also have tuesday and we can only have a good vaccine that can protect in the short term but have a sustained longrange by providing the booster vaccine by combining the vaccines that we are developing. So quite a com
Perceived in the local community . Also for dr. Frieden, a group of staffers like myself were at the cdc headquarters and were able to meet with your team combatting and organizing the response. One of the things we heard was when it comes to Public Infrastructure the Health Ministers dont get as much attention as other ministers. How is this outbreak changing that environment . Are we able to leverage that situation to get them to pay more attention for longterm growth . It is generally our experience in Public Health that people pay most attention to us in the middle of an outbreak or epidemic. Within countries you will find that Health Ministries are generally weak compared to other ministries and that the Public Health aspect of that is particularly weak. Congressional initiative from senator harkin and others to establish Public Health institutes that would be able to run Laboratory Networks and train and host Operation Centers are very important. And it would be tragic if we didn