The Government has supplies and medical staff ready and available to offer help to the peoples of Africa during this crisis.
The Government has the resources
but not the Resolve to offer assistance.
Because of their 'passive ignorance' and lack of leadership
they have taken no action ... and more people are dying .
The government inaction in this humanitarian crisis minimizes the value of human life,
even if this crisis is not on this continent.
And yes , it will come here on this continent if nothing is done .. it is just a matter of time .
"Defense Department personnel are on the ground in West Africa and in U.S. laboratories fighting to control the worst outbreak in the African history of the Ebola virus, which a senior Army infectious disease doctor called a “scourge of mankind.”
Army Colonel James Cummings, a doctor and director of the Global Emerging Infections Surveillance and Response System in the Armed Forces Health Surveillance Center, said the battle against the virus since the outbreak began in West Africa in March focuses on trying to stop disease transmission.
“We had a large footprint in Africa,” Cummings said of the Defense Department’s response to the first Ebola cases reported in 1976 in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, formerly Zaire. Since that time, the Defense Department has answered numerous calls for assistance from the World Health Organization (WHO), nongovernmental organizations and ministries of heath and defense, he said."