Phil HelselNBC News
Wed, Aug 06, 2014 19: 12 CDT
© HeraldonlineCDC officials present at the Conference on Ebola. The Centers for Disease Control and prevention on Wednesday ramped up its response to the expanding range of the Ebola outbreak, a move that frees hundreds of workers and signals the Agency sees health in emergency situations, may be long and severe.
The CDC is "level 1 activation" is reserved for the most severe public health emergencies, and the Agency said the move was appropriate, taking into account the outbreak "may affect many lives." The CDC took the corresponding transition in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina in 2005 and again in 2009 during an avian influenza pandemic threat.
The Ebola outbreak is believed to have killed the 932 people in African countries from Liberia, Sierra Leone, Nigeria and Guinea. Two u.s. aid workers sickened by the disease was flown back to the United States for treatment in a medical facility in Atlanta.
The CDC four additional staff in the countries concerned, and it is said that 50 more disease control experts should arrive there in 30 days. It also gave instructions to the airlines, which may come into contact with passengers, designed to minimize the chance of infection affected countries.
. @CDCEmergency #EbolaOutbreak level 1 ops Center moved to the answer given to expanding opportunities for Nigeria & many human lives.
-Dr. Tom Frieden (@DrFriedenCDC) 6 August 2014
we thank God Nancy Writebol arrived safely in Atlanta and treatment at Emory hospital. Read more here: http://t.co/LfWstRosxI
-Samaritan's purse (@SamaritansPurse) 5 August 2014
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