you said, mr. isaac, that the international response that you deemed a failure, no failure need be a failure in perpetuity and i wonder if there has been the turn of a corner, again, inspired by the tragedy of two of your workers being affected by the ebola virus. and secondly, can you tell us how they are doing? if there is a sense if not fully backed by science yet, that the drug may have had an impact? one of the questions i asked to the earlier panel is is some of these interventions proved to be efficacious, delay is denial if you have ebola. in this is that this seems to be ramping up, it your thoughts on an aggressive fda working in conjunction with the other agencies of government based on opting in, recognizing the risks, as dr. brantly certainly did, and ms. right writebol. >> on the failure aspect, i would say that i think the full international impact of ebola has not been realized. i believe that ebola threatens the stability of the three countries where it is affected right now. my staff me

you said, mr. isaac, that the international response that you deemed a failure, no failure need be a failure in perpetuity and i wonder if there has been the turn of a corner, again, inspired by the tragedy of two of your workers being affected by the ebola virus. and secondly, can you tell us how they are doing? if there is a sense if not fully backed by science yet, that the drug may have had an impact? one of the questions i asked to the earlier panel is is some of these interventions proved to be efficacious, delay is denial if you have ebola. in this is that this seems to be ramping up, it your thoughts on an aggressive fda working in conjunction with the other agencies of government based on opting in, recognizing the risks, as dr. brantly certainly did, and ms. writebol. >> on the failure aspect, i would say that i think the full international impact of ebola has not been realized. i believe that ebola threatens the stability of the three countries where it is affected right now. my staff met with

mr. isaacs will share today and i have read his testimony -- when the health care workers confirmed with ebola, getting guidance for returning health care workers soon became apparent there were significant gap in existing procedures for dealing with this. the cdc had no available registry of medical facilities capable of treating ebola patients in the united states. there are no quarantines or travel restrictions in place and there was concerned the gaps in the protocols and how do you deal with them? i appreciate them very much. i appreciate dr. frieden -- he took the cold call when his getting on the airplane. i hope you will talk about any deficiencies and how they can be addressed by the government and the congress of stop -- and the congress. i want to thank chairman smith for calling this hearing during the august recess and i also want to recognize the men and women of the cdc and other international response groups who are on the ground and soon will be on the ground in africa as well as the doctors and nurses helping the two patients in atlanta. i want to thank them because thi

mr. ken isaacs, who served as the office of foreign disaster assistance in usaid. he hashe has served as directore office of foreign disaster assistance within usaid. he coordinated the u.s. government's response to the indonesian tsunami, the pakistani earthquake, relief to darfur and southern sudan, as well as niger and easy open ethiopian emergency responses. he has more than 27 years experience working in the disaster relief field. he is currently leading the samaritans purse organizational efforts in liberia in response to the ebola epidemic. we will then hear from dr. frank glover, the director of the

mr. isaacs, you ask the question earlier -- where will the money go? in your opinion, where should the money go, and what should it buy? >> i feel that international personnel are needed. i do not think the ministry of health of liberia can fight this. they do not have the case investigation capacity. i talked with a senior person at the cdc. i won't name her, but she is a well-known person who told me that in the united states, if there was one person that had a level four infectious disease, they would have many hundreds of contacts to run down. there are no contacts being run down in liberia. i do not believe the liberian government, as well-intentioned as they are, and i do believe that they are well-intentioned, i just simply do not think that they have the capacity. i think that there needs to be something to augment their capacity. i think that there needs to be some kind of coordination unit. i've heard here today that the world health organization has the lead. maybe, maybe not. i think something with a bit more of an operational edge to it is

outbreak guinea liberia nigeria and sierra leone but perhaps the most compelling testimony came from mr ken isaacs the vice president of programs for samaritans purse that's the organization that dr kent brantly works for he's the doctor who contract it a bullet in liberia and is now undergoing treatment in atlanta i sat down with ken isaacs following the congressional hearing and asked him when he thinks it might hit america. i do think a bullet will come to america at that's not a question of if it is just when. i don't think that in america we're going to see the death toll because we do have an excellent public health system what dr frieden said today is absolutely right we will be able to quickly isolate the disease and there are some people will get sick and some people die but you're going to see pockets you're going to see four or five or ten people you're not going to see hundreds of people i don't see that happening. two weeks three weeks two months three months it's going to be very soon this disease this pathogen. called ebola now lives in the world with us it occupies the globe with u