Posted on 09/28/2014 4:11:25 PM PDT by Tolerance Sucks Rocks
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The Obama administration urged the international community Friday to view outbreaks of Ebola, MERS and other deadly diseases as global security threats that require broad and rapid responses to protect the safety of populations and economies.
Top U.S. officials from the White House, Pentagon and State Department met with representatives from 44 countries and multilateral agencies, including the United Nations and World Bank, to call for implementation of 7-year-old global standards for dealing with deadly epidemics and other health dangers, including biological attacks.
President Barack Obama, who this week urged members of the United Nations to do more against the Ebola outbreak in West Africa, told Friday's meeting that the current response to disease outbreaks often amounts to an ill-coordinated scramble with tragic consequences.
"With all the knowledge, all the medical talent, all the advanced technologies at our disposal, it is unacceptable if, because of lack of preparedness and planning and global coordination, people are dying when they don't have to," the president said.
The worst-ever outbreak of the deadly Ebola virus, which has killed nearly 3,000 people in West Africa over the past six months and could reach a total number of 20,000 cases by November, was front and center in the discussion.
"If left unaddressed, Ebola has the potential to cause instability the likes of which we haven't seen since Liberia's civil war," U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry told an audience that included health ministers and other officials from countries with a combined population of 4 billion people.
The international community is mobilizing thousands of personnel and pouring billions of dollars into an Americana-led effort to control the Ebola outbreak, which the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) says could infect 550,000 to 1.4 million people by January if nothing is done.
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PING!
You send the Red Cross...International Organizations. That's not our governments job.
The current pResident, his wife, and the entire administration are security threats.
Yeah right, Barry.
Close the damn border then.
Open borders are security threats as well as importing those who hate us
So you have to be either a microscopic organism or a weapon that shoots people in order to be deemed as “threatening”. Got it.
>>”With all the knowledge, all the medical talent, all the advanced technologies at our disposal, it is unacceptable if, because of lack of preparedness and planning and global coordination, people are dying when they don’t have to,” the president said.<<
Like, say having a still-porous border wherein we invite people with Ebola (and worse) by not sending them home.
That kind of securituy threat, obozo?
So instead of protecting the security of U.S. citizens, this Administration refuses to enforce immigration laws, and instead lets thousands of illegals enter without any restrictions. He talks out of both sides of his a$$.
Hussein would not know a security threat if it snuck into the White House and bit him in the @$$.
NSS!
He just wants YT to go over there and catch it, and bring it back to the First World. What a thug of a “president” this man is. More of his “redistribution”-we get to share the fruit of our labor through confiscation, and in return, he will share diseases and criminality from the “victim groups”.
I say diseases like Obama should be viewed as a security threat.
Must not be enough people choosing to go over there to get the disease, I can’t wait to hear him start to try to force doctors and aid workers to go.
Anything that can be used as an excuse for the surveillance and policing of US citizens is a security threat.
I won’t be surprised when because not enough people want to go catch ebola or get their throats slit, the thug in chief uses that as an excuse to import the infected people here.
He doesn’t care about that, he does and says whatever advances his one and only agenda.
There’s a disease, much more dangerous than Ebola, in the White Hut.
Security threats?
Southern border?????
WOW, if they ever start connecting the dots, they will discover how incompetent they are.
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