The Ebola virus outbreak in West Africa drew the head of the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention to visit responders in the field.
Watch Dr. Tom Frieden, director of the CDC, give an update on the outbreak live.
Health workers load the body of an amputee suspected of dying from the Ebola virus in Monrovia, Liberia, on Tuesday. Authorities have cordoned off entire towns in an effort to halt the virus's spread, but Doctors Without Borders says any military assets and personnel deployed to the region should not be used for quarantine. (Abbas Dulleh/Associated Press)
Officials from the World Health Organization are also scheduled to speak about the outbreak on Tuesday. The virus has killed around 1,550 people since the latest outbreak was detected in March.
In a statement earlier on Tuesday, the medical aid group Doctors Without Borders called on countries to deploy civilian or military medical teams to help contain the outbreak.
In a speech to the United Nations, Dr. Joanne Liu, international president of Doctors Without Borders, denounced the lack of deployment of resources to address the outbreak, which the group says has overstretched ministries of health and private non-governmental organizations.
"Many countries possess biological threat response mechanisms. They can deploy trained civilian or military medical teams in a matter of days, in an organized fashion, and with a chain of command to assure high standards of safety and efficiency to support the affected countries."
Doctors Without Borders said any military assets and personnel deployed to the region should not be used for quarantine, containment, or crowd control measures.
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