U.S. Military to Provide Equipment, Resources to Battle Ebola Epidemic in Africa

September 7th, 2014

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Via: Washington Post:

President Obama said Sunday that the U.S. military will begin aiding what has been a chaotic and ineffective response to the Ebola epidemic in West Africa, arguing that it represents a serious national security concern.

The move is a significant ramp up in the U.S. response and comes as the already-strained military is likely to be called upon further to address militant threats in the Middle East. The decision to involve the military in providing equipment and other assistance for international health workers in Africa comes after mounting calls from some unlikely groups — most prominently the international medical group Doctors Without Borders — demonstrating to the White House the urgency of the issue.

The epidemic, which has killed at least 2,100 people in five African countries, is unlikely to spread to the United States in the short term, Obama said Sunday on NBC’s “Meet the Press.” But if the United States and other countries do not send needed equipment, public health workers and other supplies to the region, that situation could change and the virus could mutate to become more transmissible, he said.

“And then it could be a serious danger to the United States,” Obama said.

“We’re going to have to get U.S. military assets just to set up, for example, isolation units and equipment there,” he said, “to provide security for public health workers surging from around the world.”

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2 Responses to “U.S. Military to Provide Equipment, Resources to Battle Ebola Epidemic in Africa”

  1. mangrove says:

    Given the degree of corruption evident within the big organizations in the world, is it possible that the Ebola situation is purely fabricated? There have already been some serious red flags with the unprecedented hoax-like transport and supposed treatment and release of the two American doctors. At first, I thought that perhaps they were just staging those particular events in order to make the headlines and ramp up the fear, but the more I pay attention, the more the possibility of a full-fledged BIG LIE seems likely.

    I’m not 100% convinced of this, but I do believe a lot of questions need to be raised, and deeper research needs to be done.

    So far, I haven’t seen many researchers willing to even go there, regarding a conspiracy of this magnitude. Paul Sandhu is one I did find, and I believe his analysis merits attention. And it’s important to note that he’s not completely convinced of his contention, because it’s very difficult to find thorough, accurate information.

    But if you’ve been paying attention to the plethora of staged events, especially the shooting hoaxes and fabricated incidents like the Boston Marathon smoke bombing, you can’t help but wonder just how far they can go in pulling the wool over the public’s eyes. The corruption has certainly infested the highest ranks of power, and given that the media is the propaganda arm of those in power behind the scenes, isn’t the staging of this “outbreak” at least possible?

    Phantom of The EBOLA: The Disease that was not!
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vulVC67V2ts

  2. Shikar says:

    Jon Rappoport has some interesting articles on the Ebola virus too:

    http://jonrappoport.wordpress.com/?s=Ebola&submit=Search

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