The US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention ramped up its response to Ebola outbreak
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Washington: The US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention on Wednesday ramped up its response to the expanding Ebola outbreak, media reports said. The move will frees up hundreds of employees and signals the agency sees the health emergency as a potentially long and serious one, USA Today reported.
The CDC’s “level 1 activation” is reserved for the most serious public health emergencies, and the agency said the move was appropriate considering the outbreak’s “potential to affect many lives.” The CDC took a similar move in 2005 in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina, and in 2009 during the bird-flu threat, USA Today said.
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