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                 US Envoy: 'Staggering' Need in Ebola Response

   by VOA News

   The U.S. ambassador to the United Nations is calling attention to the
   need for a greater response to the Ebola outbreak that has killed
   nearly 5,000 people in West Africa.

   Samantha Power posted on Twitter early Monday after spending a day in
   Guinea that the "scale of need is staggering" and that the "most basic
   resources will help save lives."

   She is on a multi-stop tour this week of the worst-hit countries,
   including Sierra Leone and Liberia.

   Power also highlighted the efforts of those already working in Guinea
   to treat patients, build treatment facilities and educate people,
   including Doctors Without Borders and the U.S. Centers for Disease
   Control and Prevention.

   She participated by video Sunday as President Barack Obama met with his
   public health and national security advisers to discuss what the White
   House called "appropriate measure" to contain the spread of domestic
   Ebola cases.

   The meeting follows moves by New Jersey, New York and Illinois to
   impose mandatory 21-day quarantines on U.S. health workers who have
   treated Ebola patients abroad.

   The White House has criticized those quarantines as excessive, and
   Sunday the president said that domestic precautions must be guided "by
   "the best medical science" rather than political considerations.

   Earlier Sunday, a top U.S. medical official warned that mandatory
   quarantines of health care workers could discourage people from
   volunteering in West Africa. The virus has killed more than 4,900
   people in Guinea, Sierra Leone and Liberia.

   Dr. Anthony Fauci, the director of the U.S. National Institute of
   Allergy and Infectious Diseases, told CNN's State of the Union program
   Sunday that the best way to protect Americans is to stop the outbreak
   in Africa. He said one of the best ways to do that is to help health
   workers who go there, rather than take measures that may discourage
   them from helping.

   For his part, New Jersey Governor Chris Christie defended his state's
   quarantine, calling it necessary "to protect the public health of the
   people of New Jersey."
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