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LEIGH SALES, PRESENTER: The man in charge of coordinating the global response to try to stop the spread of Ebola has, not to put too fine a point on it, one helluva job.
The virus is in crisis levels at Guinea, Sierra Leone and Liberia and there have been reported isolated cases in other parts of the world too.
The United Nations is coordinating the global response and the man in the hot seat is the head of the mission for Ebola emergency response, Anthony Banbury.
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I just got back from a trip to all three countries; saw a new Ebola treatment unit being built, new medical personnel arriving. So in that sense, yeah, we're on the right track. The problem is this disease is so uncertain and the way it's spreading, where it's spreading, the rate of spread - we just don't know exactly what we're going to be facing in two weeks, four weeks time.
ANTHONY BANBURY: Well, that is the critical short term goal, because if we can hit those targets we can bend this curve and start having decreasing transmission rates instead of increasing ones. What we're doing now is putting in place all the capabilities: resources, supplies, material, people, to achieve that goal. That was our first 30 day goal and now November one marks the end of that 30 day period where we need to get the resources on the ground to do it.
Then we're going to be racing during the month of November to start achieving those type of clinical results and I'm confident that the United Nations and the partners are going to do everything possible to make it happen.
We just don't know, though, where this disease is going to spread, how many new cases there are going to be. So it's very uncertain exactly what's going to happen in the future.
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http://www.abc.net.au/7.30/content/2014/s4116671.htm
The virus is in crisis levels at Guinea, Sierra Leone and Liberia and there have been reported isolated cases in other parts of the world too.
The United Nations is coordinating the global response and the man in the hot seat is the head of the mission for Ebola emergency response, Anthony Banbury.
...
I just got back from a trip to all three countries; saw a new Ebola treatment unit being built, new medical personnel arriving. So in that sense, yeah, we're on the right track. The problem is this disease is so uncertain and the way it's spreading, where it's spreading, the rate of spread - we just don't know exactly what we're going to be facing in two weeks, four weeks time.
ANTHONY BANBURY: Well, that is the critical short term goal, because if we can hit those targets we can bend this curve and start having decreasing transmission rates instead of increasing ones. What we're doing now is putting in place all the capabilities: resources, supplies, material, people, to achieve that goal. That was our first 30 day goal and now November one marks the end of that 30 day period where we need to get the resources on the ground to do it.
Then we're going to be racing during the month of November to start achieving those type of clinical results and I'm confident that the United Nations and the partners are going to do everything possible to make it happen.
We just don't know, though, where this disease is going to spread, how many new cases there are going to be. So it's very uncertain exactly what's going to happen in the future.
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http://www.abc.net.au/7.30/content/2014/s4116671.htm