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STORY: UN / EBOLA WRAP
TRT: 3.05
SOURCE: UNIFEED - UNTV
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LANGUAGE: ENGLISH / NATS
DATELINE: 2 SEPTEMBER 2014, NEW YORK CITY / FILE
FILE – RECENT, NEW YORK CITY
1. Wide shot, exterior United Nations headquarters
2 SEPTEMBER 2014, NEW YORK CITY
2. Wide shot, conference room
3. SOUNDBITE (English) Margaret Chan, Director-General of WHO:
“This is the largest and most severe and most complex Ebola outbreak ever seen in the nearly forty year history of this disease. No one, even outbreak responders with experience dating back to 1976 to 1995, have ever seen anything like it.”
4. Med shot, delegate
5. SOUNDBITE (English) Margaret Chan, Director-General of WHO:
“The whole world is responsible and accountable to bring the Ebola threat under control. Let’s do it, action, action and action.”
6. Med shot, delegate
7. SOUNDBITE (English) David Nabarro, Senior UN System Coordinator for Ebola:
“The outbreak is moving out of our grasp. In one of the countries a colleague said, it felt that we were almost there and then suddenly over the last three weeks it’s raced away from us again. That’s the feeling. The feeling is that the outbreak is accelerating out of everybody’s hands.”
8. Med shot, delegate
9. SOUNDBITE (English) David Nabarro, Senior UN System Coordinator for Ebola:
“Let’s make sure that everybody who is working in the country has the cash, the materials, the equipment, the vehicles, the fuel, the supervision, the training, the discipline, guidance, information system support, communications guidance, so that the response can be as effective as it can be. Because, as you’ll hear, the way to deal with Ebola is well known, it’s just a question of putting it into practice.”
10. Wide shot, dais
11. Zoom in, press conference dais
12. SOUNDBITE (English) Margaret Chan, Director-General of WHO:
“We need to look at what are some of the things we can do and fast track in terms of clinical trials and to make sure that before we do any good, we want to double ensure we are not doing harm. So, we are going to test all these modalities to make sure that their safety profile is satisfactory according to the international community before we move forward and work with the industry in a big way.”
13. Pan right, audience
14. SOUNDBITE (English) David Nabarro, Senior UN System Coordinator for Ebola:
“The outbreak is advancing ahead of us; it’s accelerating ahead of us, and we in our control efforts, collectively are falling behind. And the more we fall behind, and the more the outbreak accelerates ahead of us, the harder it is to overtake it and to control it. And so, that’s why we are talking now about a major surge in the response, and why we want to see that surge in place quickly so that we can get back in line with the outbreak and ahead of it as quickly as possible.”
15. Wide shot, end of presser
The Head of the World Health Organization (WHO) said today (2 August) that the current Ebola outbreak in West Africa is “the largest and most severe and most complex” ever seen in the nearly forty year history of this disease.
Speaking at special briefing at UN Headquarters in New York, Margaret Chan, Director-General of WHO, said that not even the most experienced outbreak responders “have ever seen anything like it.”
Chan stressed that “the whole world is responsible and accountable to bring the Ebola threat under control” and made a call for “action, action and action.”
WHO recently issued this roadmap for scaled-up response to the Ebola outbreak. The goal is to stop Ebola transmission in affected countries within 6-9 months and prevent international spread.
David Nabarro, Senior UN System Coordinator for Ebola, said “the outbreak is moving out of our grasp” and underlined the need to provide health workers with “the cash, the materials, the equipment, the vehicles, the fuel, the supervision, the training, the discipline, guidance, information system support, communications guidance, so that the response can be as effective as it can be.”
Nabarro said “the way to deal with Ebola is well known, it’s just a question of putting it into practice.”
The roadmap will assist governments and partners in the revision and resourcing of country-specific operational plans for Ebola response, and the coordination of international support for their full implementation.
At a later press conference Chan said “we need to look at what are some of the things we can do and fast track in terms of clinical trials and to make sure that before we do any good, we want to double ensure we are not doing harm. So, we are going to test all these modalities to make sure that their safety profile is satisfactory according to the international community before we move forward and work with the industry in a big way.”
Nabarro said “the outbreak is advancing ahead of us; it’s accelerating ahead of us, and we in our control efforts, collectively are falling behind. And the more we fall behind, and the more the outbreak accelerates ahead of us, the harder it is to overtake it and to control it. And so, that’s why we are talking now about a major surge in the response, and why we want to see that surge in place quickly so that we can get back in line with the outbreak and ahead of it as quickly as possible.”
The latest number of Ebola virus disease (EVD) cases in affected countries Guinea, Liberia, Nigeria, and Sierra Leone, stands at 3,069, with over 1,552 deaths, making this the largest Ebola outbreak ever recorded. An unprecedented number of health care workers have also been infected and died due to this outbreak.
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