U.S. military planes arrive at epicenter of Ebola

America is a country of DOER for a good cause in humanity.. We move forward with strong mission and commitment. . .

May God Bless you and watch over your safety while you are trying to accomplish this very difficult and risky mission for all of us. .

Thank you guys!!

Great to see the preventative measures finally being put in place. My main concern is that it should somehow spread to Asia's population centres. One symptomatic Haj pilgrim is all it would take.

“Our people are dying,” Sierra Leone President Ernest Bai Koroma lamented by videoconference at a World Bank meeting in Washington. He said other countries are not responding fast enough"

What about Russia and China?

"Preventive measures" would first of all mean a travel, and not sending non-medical personnel into the infected areas by the thousands. Obamas policies are reckless.

“Our people are dying,” Sierra Leone President Ernest Bai Koroma lamented by videoconference at a World Bank meeting in Washington. He said other countries are not responding fast enough"

Hmm...

.>>Our people are dying,” Sierra Leone President Ernest Bai Koroma lamented by videoconference at a World Bank meeting in Washington. He said other countries are not responding fast enough"

Hmm...

China, Russia not yet responding. FYI

President Obama's administration is sending aid, soldiers and critical supplies to Africa that can and will save lives.

Where is the rote, knee-jerk Conservative opposition to this APPALLING act of kindness, good will and humanity?

Has Fox News - the Heart of The American Conservative Movement - not issued the cue for the Right to oppose this yet?

America is a country of DOER for a good cause in humanity.. We move forward with strong mission and commitment. . .

May God Bless you and watch over your safety while you are trying to accomplish this very difficult and risky mission for all of us. .

Thank you guys!!

globalwatcher -- spot on. Like the commercials say about the U.S. Navy -- "A global force for good".

And, WilliB, it was unfortunately predictable that folks like yourself would choose to turn a humanitarian mission into a political issue:

"Preventive measures" would first of all mean a travel, and not sending non-medical personnel into the infected areas by the thousands. Obamas policies are reckless.

LOL. You folks critisize Obama for not sending arms and possibly troups to Syria to overthrow al-Assad, but sending troops to save lives is "reckless:" Please!

Where is the rote, knee-jerk Conservative opposition to this APPALLING act of kindness, good will and humanity?

This is a bi-partisan operation. Having said that, It just perplexes me that this president will knowingly send troops into harms way to possibly getting a disease that is equal to AIDS put kills you much, much faster in a few days to a few weeks, which these men and women upon return, could spread the disease, we just already found out that it's possible, so there's NO disputing that. But sending troops to fight ISIS, NO way. Dying by disease is OK, but not by a bullet. Again, it's the political optics that makes this president look like a constant buffoon.

Has Fox News - the Heart of The American Conservative Movement

Correction, more like the mainstream of America and slowly beyond to put it more accurately.

not issued the cue for the Right to oppose this yet?

They never opposed it, but like me, some question the logic and politics of it and rightfully so. We are dealing with a disease that can spread, there is NO disease in Iraq or Syria, but radical Jihadists do reside there.

@Jersey

And, WilliB, it was unfortunately predictable that folks like yourself would choose to turn a humanitarian mission into a political issue:

"Preventive measures" would first of all mean a travel, and not sending non-medical personnel into the infected areas by the thousands. Obamas policies are reckless.

@jersey, he does have a point, Obama has already politicized virtually every issue, this is THE most divisive president in US history, when was he ever and I mean, EVER a NON-partisan? The answer to that is NEVER. He doers bombing of targets on suspected areas where ISIS members are hiding and how has that worked so far? They are about to take over the Syrian town of Kobani and all that bombing is not going to save them. ISIS now controls their main border, they can't get anything in or out and you know what that means... We will see horrific executions, rapes and so on and the president could have avoided all of this by sending at least more specie forces to engage the enemy, he is NOT doing that. He's NOT listening to his generals and other top military senior strategists and this is what we have now, another massacre that could have been prevented. Now the president wants to send troops into Africa to fight this disease which is a good and noble thing, but you will probably have some of the soldiers possibly exposing themselves being contaminated and you also don't show ANY symptoms up until a few weeks later which is really scary.

Has Fox News - the Heart of The American Conservative Movement

I googled foxnews.com a bit for it, only found an article that complained sending the military wasn't enough, that Obama should also quarantine the countries under outbreak. (Googled because Fox's own search box seems broken on my browser.)

There was a video on the site with Charles Krauthammer and Neil Cavuto that might have had more criticism, but no transcript provided, and I'm not going to sit through the video.

The way of the world is that countries with the greatest economic ties will help. Don't know whether China or Russia have many ties to west African nations. No they?

Liberia has ties to the USA, clearly. The American people and government are helping. I suspect this will get much larger than 3000 soon. We should learn from our lack of AIDS response in the early 1980s and throw whatever resources are needed at this sooner than later. I only know 1 person from Liberia; worked with him for 5 years and consider him a great friend. I know his wife, family, and have meet some of his family who live in Liberia. I want to help, just as I helped financially with all the recent disasters across Asia the last 15 yrs.

People are people everywhere. We should help, if we can.

Other countries can and should help. This will be a global issue very quickly. Just imagine what happens as this terrible disease spreads to our lands. Hopefully none of the people send will bring in additional diseases by accident for the local populations.

Don't know about the treatment/doses the US government is providing, but did see a PBS-NOVA episode THIS weekhttp://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/body/surviving-ebola.html on surviving Ebola and a highly experimental treatment that uses infected tobacco plants to create special proteins that prevent the virus from reproducing as much. It is a highly labor intensive product (manually injecting into each leaf) requiring multiple weeks. In 20 days, at least 1,000 more people will have been infected.

Now is not the time to criticize President Obama on this stuff regardless of your personal politics. There are plenty of other things he can be criticized about anyway.

The way of the world is that countries with the greatest economic ties will help. Don't know whether China or Russia have many ties to west African nations. No they?

China does a lot of business projects in Africa. I remember one Chinese documentary about Chinese doctors and nurses working in a hospital (field hospital?) there.

This is probably the new treatment you mentioned: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ZMapp

They didn't give it to Thomas Eric Duncan, the Liberian man who died in Dallas, because they ran out of stock. It takes months to make.

http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/oct/01/first-ebola-patient-us-no-zmapp

I googled foxnews.com a bit for it, only found an article that complained sending the military wasn't enough, that Obama should also quarantine the countries under outbreak. (Googled because Fox's own search box seems broken on my browser.)

He should. The best thing would be to halt all flights from Liberia to the US until the disease is contained.

There was a video on the site with Charles Krauthammer and Neil Cavuto that might have had more criticism, but no transcript provided, and I'm not going to sit through the video.

Saw it, pretty much goes into what I was saying, which would be the best step to isolate the virus as much as possible and to limit or block all flights from Liberia.

@thefu

Now is not the time to criticize President Obama on this stuff regardless of your personal politics. There are plenty of other things he can be criticized about anyway.

You can still criticize the president regardless of what the crisis of the moment is, there is NO holiday or rest when it comes to criticizing the president, no time off and no breaks. He doesn't get a pass. Whether he does his job or not, no matter Repub or Dem. That's all part of the job.

Having said that, It just perplexes me that this president will knowingly send troops into harms way to possibly getting a disease that is equal to AIDS put kills you much, much faster in a few days to a few weeks, which these men and women upon return, could spread the disease, we just already found out that it's possible, so there's NO disputing that.

Congratulations on winning today's "Run-On Sentence of the Day" award.

The key words in your overly-long sentence were "possibly", "could", and "possible". You're right, there IS no disputing that such things are possible. But it is just as indisputable that the troops could experience NO contraction of the disease, making the possibility of these troops spreading the disease "upon return" an impossibility. I guess that was the possibility your "glass half-empty" brain couldn't handle.

Now lets look at your apparent preferred placement of U.S. troops. Please note the complete lack of the conditionals "possibly" and "could": Troops sent into the Middle East to combat ISIS will definitely be shot at, mortared at, and IED'd. U.S. Troops will DEFINITELY die. But you don't care about that at all as long as the mighty United States of 'Mer'ca gets to flex their weapons prowess, do you. It's people like you that make me embarrassed that I'm a citizen of the same country you are. Please find some other country to champion. I hear Russia is looking for people to push for sending troops to other countries. Mozhetbuits, Tovarisch?

@turbotsat

Well said - I think that is the treatment from NOVA. Unknown to me if the US military is working the same or different treatments.

I knew China had huge investments in parts of Africa, but didn't think they had much in west Africa. Did find a few articles about supplies ($200K + $5M + $32M) from China since April going to the 3 main countries with the outbreak. Not a trivial amount, so China deserves credit. The article I found also says that over 1,000 Chinese medial people are currently in African countries working in teams. If these articles are the truth, seems like the Chinese are all-in fighting the outbreak to me. We need their continued help and it is appreciated greatly.

The key words in your overly-long sentence were "possibly", "could", and "possible". You're right, there IS no disputing that such things are possible. But it is just as indisputable that the troops could experience NO contraction of the disease, making the possibility of these troops spreading the disease "upon return" an impossibility.

I guess that was the possibility your "glass half-empty" brain couldn't handle.

Now we have to inject emotion and insults into an argument, because we can't win it?????

So now you are a medical expert in the field of medicine? That is precisely why this president always gets everything wrong, because he thinks that he's always right. He was the same guy that predicted and promised that we have nothing to fear and that Ebola won't hit our shores and what happened? So of course the soldiers are exposing themselves, they are doing their duty without question. I applaud that, but as complex and enigmatic as this guy is, it makes NO sense to expose these men and women to an unknown virus that has proven since AIDS to be the most challenging and dangerous of our time and the Obama admin. being once again overconfident and boasting that they know everything when it comes to handling dangerous diseases and waging an ineffective air bombing campaign with virtually zero results.

Now lets look at your apparent preferred placement of U.S. troops. Please note the complete lack of the conditionals "possibly" and "could": Troops sent into the Middle East to combat ISIS will definitely be shot at, mortared at, and IED'd. U.S. Troops will DEFINITELY die.

Yes, that is the job of a soldier to fight, defend, uphold and maintain the peace and die.

But you don't care about that at all as long as the mighty United States of 'Mer'ca gets to flex their weapons prowess, do you.

No, I care about radical Islam permeating our shores and the people wanting to try to kill us and wanting to impose Sharia as a way of life. Yes, I deeply worry about that at this point and time more than what the other countries that don't want to get involved with this serious threat, let them go to Africa and deal with the Ebola outbreak. If these countries care so much, they have the necessary resources, they should go and let our troops handle and deal with the growing threat of radical Islam.

It's people like you that make me embarrassed that I'm a citizen of the same country you are.

Right back at you buddy, I feel the same way about you guys, probably worse.

Please find some other country to champion. I hear Russia is looking for people to push for sending troops to other countries. Mozhetbuits, Tovarisch?

I was hoping the liberal wing and the other moon bats of the US would hopefully relocate there.

zichiOct. 11, 2014 - 11:43AM JST

3,000 British troops and a hospital ship are also on their way.

Thanks for letting us know, zichi. I think we are trying to build at least 25 hospitals for Ebola patients and other facilities for treating teams at this moment.