Government

ASSOCIATED PRESS 10 octobre 2014, 16 h 36 he

MONROVIA--libériens législateurs vendredi a rejeté une proposition d'octroyer la Présidente Ellen Johnson Sirleaf le pouvoir de restreindre davantage le mouvement et les rassemblements publics et confisquer des biens dans la lutte contre le virus Ebola. Un législateur dit une telle loi aurait tourné au Libéria en état policier.

Défaite de la proposition est venue comme l'Organisation mondiale de la santé a déclenché une fois de plus le nombre de décès attribué à l'épidémie d'Ebola. L'Office des Nations Unies basée à Genève, a déclaré que 4 033 morts d'Ebola confirmés, probables ou suspects ont désormais été enregistrées.

libériens en scène un yesterrday de protestation devant l'Assemblée nationale contre le gouvernement de ne pas faire assez pour lutter contre le virus d'Ebola dans Monrovia, Libéria. (AP Photo/Abbas Dulleh)

tous, mais neuf d'entre eux ont été dans les trois pays plus touchés, Libéria, Sierra Leone et la Guinée. 8 le reste étaient au Nigeria, avec un patient mourant aux États-Unis...

NEW YORK TIMES              October 3, 2014

MONROVIA, Liberia — The arrival in the United States of a Liberian man infected with the Ebola virus shows how difficult it is to control or restrict the disease from spreading, and how porous current procedures are in a world of globalized air travel.

Liberian officials said on Thursday that they planned to prosecute the passenger, Thomas E. Duncan, for lying on an airport questionnaire about not having contact with a person infected with Ebola before his travel — a pivotal part of the country’s screening process.

Mr. Duncan took three planes as he flew from Monrovia, the Liberian capital, to Dallas last month, connecting in Brussels and Washington.

By Cheryl Pellerin

DoD News, Defense Media Activity

WASHINGTON, Sept. 26, 2014 – The Defense Department has made critical contributions to the fight against the deadly Ebola outbreak in West Africa, and today Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel described additional ways the Pentagon is helping in the broader battle against infectious disease outbreaks of the future.

He spoke at a gathering of top government and military officials and infectious disease experts from 44 countries here to attend the Global Health Security Agenda, or GHSA, Summit hosted by President Barack Obama.

Hagel said ...the department also is accelerating the manufacture of potential treatments and starting clinical trials for a vaccine candidate and it has received approval to begin safety testing for one [Ebola] vaccine candidate that will be conducted at the Walter Reed Army Institute of Research.”

...The DoD Cooperative Threat Reduction Program is providing unique resources and expertise to enhance detection and surveillance, Hagel said, and all department assets will help civilian responders contain Ebola's spread and mitigate its economic, social and political fallout.

For fuller description of the Defense Department's activities to counter Ebola see link to the full article:

Press Statement

http://www.state.gov/r/pa/prs/ps/2014/230613.htm