CDC Goes all out to Combat Ebola; Organizations Dispatch Specialists to Africa
Original article from: Boston Herald posted on August 7, 2014. By Lindsay Kalter
The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has set its emergency operations center in Atlanta at its highest response level over the Ebola crisis, dispatching dozens of experts to the stricken region in West Africa, while the World Health Organization discusses whether it should declare the crisis an international public health emergency.
CDC spokeswoman Karen Hunter said the movement of the center’s emergency operations center to Level 1 activation is “reserved for the largest-scale responses, which often require substantial agencywide effort.” The CDC said within a month 50 specialists will be in West Africa, where U.S. teams are already operating in Nigeria, Sierra Leone, Liberia and Guinea.