one individual in uganda died from marberg. their cause of death was not immediately identified but we have done important work in uganda to help the ugandans better have a lapper to network to find cases, have a response network with disease detectives and people who can follow up, and have an emergency operations center to track individual cases, and as a result, they've identified contacts, those contacts include an individual who was the embalmer, who went back to kenya. that individual was traced and tracked to kenarch was tested, does not at this point have marberg, and the contacts within that patient's family in uganda are being tested and so far haven't been the additional cases. i mention this because often times in public health, what gets noticed is what happens, and it's hard to see what doesn't happen. if we stop the outbreak in rural drc and prevent an outbreak of marberg in uganda, that may not be headlines but tells us there is progress, and gives us confidence that we will be able to control ebola in west afri

one individual in uganda died from marberg. their cause of death was not immediately identified but we've done important work in uganda to help the ugandans better have a laboratory network so they can find cases, have a responsibility network with disease detectives and people who can follow up. and have an emergency operation center to track individual cases. and as a result, they've identified contacts. those contacts include an individual who was the embalmer, who then went back to kenya. that person was traced and tracked to kenya. was tested. at this point does not have marberg and the contacts within that person's family in uganda and so far there have not been additional cases. i mention this because oftentimes in public health what gets noticed is what happens. it's hard to see what doesn't happen. if we stop the outbreak in rural drc and prevent an outbreak in uganda, that may not be headlines but that tells us there is progress and gives us confidence we will be able to control ebola in west africa. now, there's a lo

, she underwent surgery before anyone knew she had the marberg infection. so the standards of precautions work, but they have to be vigorously applied. if the the hospitals want additional safeguards, that is entirely up to them, but for many years, with we have cared for the patients in africa with these conditions and not had infections as long as the iniftection control procedures are strictly followed. it is not a question of being highly infectious, but it is a question of making sure that the precautions that are taken are strictly and meticulously adhered to. >> i had a second question with regard to the, you mentioned seven health care workers among those being monitored, and when the patient first appeared at the hospital, routine blood work was taken. did your net include the people in the laboratory who were handling the blood specimens? >> yes. we have looked at all potential exposures within the hospital context. we will go to the phone for the first question. >> our first question is from elizabeth cohen from cnn. go ahead. >> hi, dr. frieden,

we know if you read the hot zone, any of those books that talk about ebola and marberg, this is lethal stuff. we have no way. the best thing, quarantine the people who come into the country if the they've been in one of those country, through paris from one of those countries, quarantine them the 21 days. that's just automatic. not to do that is stupid. to ban people coming from the country is also a mandatory thing. you've got to do it. >> michelle, talk about the 3,900, 3,900 u.s. troops that will go to these countries and start helping, assist these countries with ebola. we now know how easy it is to catch it. a nurse touches her face, she catches ebola. in spain, some of the two nurses here, not sure exactly how much contact they had with the bodily fluids. they caught ebola. are we smart to send our military to fight this disease there? >> i don't think it's their job. i don't think it's the job of the u.s. miller to to do this. it's great for humanitarians to go over but not sending troops there. we should send troops to fight isis, not to fight ebola. look, this is a very seriou

they continued the marberg program.t into a stage where we had more safety and efficacy. liz: the treatment binds to the virus' rna, ribonucleic acid. it works 80% of the time in monkeys. talk about the trials. did you ever get to phase one? >> yes under the animal role, we have to simulate what ebola victim would be like in the world in the monkeys, we infect the monkeys, they die within 8-12 days. with our treatment, we were seeing consistent 60-80% survival rates with the monkeys. all of the other monkeys who were untreated died. liz: i'm looking at and you saying this guy needs security. you have two dozen courses of the therapy. how quickly could you ramp it up, chris? >> right now ramp up about 100 courses of therapy if we got funding to bring it to active pharmaceutical drug substance to. produce thousands or, you know, more doses, we would need more significant funding, that would take at least a year or more to produce more liz: do you shake your head and say we didn't have to rush this? had we just stayed the