U.S. announces Ebola offensive
Reuters
2014-09-16
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The United States has pledged to send 3,000 troops to West Africa, using its military muscle to battle the biggest ever outbreak of Ebola.
"In West Africa, Ebola is an epidemic of the likes that we have not seen before. It's spiraling out of control," President Barack Obama said at the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in Atlanta, Georgia, on Tuesday (September 16).
"Today, I'm announcing a major increase in our response," he added, which includes building treatment clinics and training health workers to halt the spread of the deadly virus.
It is Obama's second announcement of a major military operation in two weeks after his declaration that Washington would bomb Islamic State fighters in the Middle East.
The U.S. action, which goes far further than previous offers of aid, won praise from aid workers and officials in the region, but health experts said it was still not enough to contain the fast-spreading e
The United States has pledged to send 3,000 troops to West Africa, using its military muscle to battle the biggest ever outbreak of Ebola.
"In West Africa, Ebola is an epidemic of the likes that we have not seen before. It's spiraling out of control," President Barack Obama said at the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in Atlanta, Georgia, on Tuesday (September 16).
"Today, I'm announcing a major increase in our response," he added, which includes building treatment clinics and training health workers to halt the spread of the deadly virus.
It is Obama's second announcement of a major military operation in two weeks after his declaration that Washington would bomb Islamic State fighters in the Middle East.
The U.S. action, which goes far further than previous offers of aid, won praise from aid workers and officials in the region, but health experts said it was still not enough to contain the fast-spreading e
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