1 Billion Now Needed to Fight Ebola

Cost of fighting Ebola now rising "exponentially"? Saw this coming. 200 billion to half a trillion at this point if this is to be beat back into the Batcave, -before it gets much worse. If it explodes out of Africa the costs in dollars will be incalculable.

UN: Nearly $1 billion needed now to stop Ebola

By JOHN HEILPRIN and KRISTA LARSON
Associated Press

GENEVA (AP) -- The number of Ebola cases in West Africa could start doubling every three weeks and it could end up costing nearly $1 billion to contain the crisis, the World Health Organization warned Tuesday.

Even as President Barack Obama was expected to announce the deployment of 3,000 American troops to help provide aid in the region, Doctors Without Borders told the U.N. health agency that the global response to Ebola was falling far short of what is needed.

"The response to Ebola continues to fall dangerously behind," Joanne Liu, president of the medical charity, told a meeting at the United Nations in Geneva. "The window of opportunity to contain this outbreak is closing. We need more countries to stand up, we need greater deployment, and we need it now."

In a report released Tuesday, WHO said some $987.8 million is needed for everything from paying health workers and buying supplies to tracing people who have been exposed to the virus, which is spread by contact with bodily fluids like blood, urine or diarrhea. Some $23.8 million alone is needed to pay burial teams and buy body bags, since the bodies of Ebola victims are highly infectious and workers must wear protection suits.

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I would give it two weekends.