. >> thank you, haley and thank , senatornator koonce flake, and the senate foreign relations subcommittee on african affairs for cohosting this event with us today. welcome to our distinguished and thank you all for joining us today for this very important discussion. we are very glad to have c-span here as well so others can take part in this. center -- we are a nonprofit organization dedicated to protecting pe'

. >> thank you, haley and thank , senatornator koonce flake, and the senate foreign relations subcommittee on african affairs for cohosting this event with us today. welcome to our distinguished and thank you all for joining us today for this very important discussion. we are very glad to have c-span here as well so others can take part in this. center -- we are a nonprofit organization dedicated to protecting people's health from epidemics and disasters. we are so pleased to be here today with you. ofare here for a discussion the urgent ebola crisis in west africa. there have been estimates in the last few days the project as many as 20,000 cases of ebola by november and as many as 1.4 million cases of ebola by the end of january, without an immediate and massive response. in the affected countries, there is a terrible consequence and academic hardship on the ground -- and epidemic hardship on the ground. ebola combines an extraordinary case fatality rate with the capacity to spread by contact, an inability to treat with medicines or prevent with vaccine, and dublin time as short as 20 da