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When I was asked to - [br]invited, rather,

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to give this talk [br]a couple of months ago

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we discussed a number [br]of titles with the organizers

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and a lot of different items were [br]kicked around and were discussed,

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but nobody suggested[br]this one that you see here today

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and the reason for that was,[br]two months ago

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ebola was escalating exponentially

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and spreading over wider geographic areas[br]than we had ever seen

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and the world was terrified, [br]concerned and alarmed

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by this disease, in a way we've not [br]seen in recent history.

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But today, I can stand here [br]and I can talk to you

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about beating ebola,

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because of people [br]whom you've never heard of,

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people like Peter Clement,

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a Liberian doctor,[br]who's working in Lofa county,

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a place that many of you have [br]never heard of, probably, in Liberia.

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The reason that Lofa county [br]is so important

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is because [br]about five months ago,

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when the epidemic was [br]just starting to escalate,

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Lofa county was right at the center, [br]the epicenter of this epidemic.

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At that time, MSF [br](Doctors Without Borders)

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and the treatment center there,

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they were seeing dozens of patients [br]every single day,

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and these patients, these communities[br]were becoming more and more terrified

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as time went by, with this disease [br]and what it was doing to their families,

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to the communities, [br]to the children, to the relatives.

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And so Peter Clement was charged with [br]driving that 12 hour long rough road,

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from Monrovia, the capital,[br]up to Lofa county,

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to try and help bring control[br]to the escalating epidemic there.

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And what Peter found when he arrived[br]was a terror that I just mentioned to you.

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So he sat down with the local chiefs, [br]and he listened.

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And what he heard was heartbreaking.

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He heard about the devastation [br]and the desperation

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of people affected by this disease.

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He heard the heartbreaking stories about

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not just the damage that [br]ebola did to people,

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but what it did to families [br]and what it did to communities.

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And he listened to the chiefs, [br]the local chiefs there

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and what they told him - they said

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"When our children are sick, [br]when our children are dying,

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we can't hold them at a time when [br]we want to be closest to them.

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When our relatives die, we can't [br]take care of them as our tradition demands

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we are not allowed to wash [br]the bodies to bury them

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the way our communities and [br]our rituals demand.

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And for this reason, [br]they were deeply disturbed, deeply alarmed

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and the entire epidemic [br]was unraveling in front of them.

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People were turning on the health care [br]workers who had come,

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the heroes who come to try and help save [br]and the community

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to help work with the community,[br]And they were unable to access them.

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And what happened then was [br]Peter explained to the leaders,

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the leaders listened. [br]They turned the tables.

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And Peter explained what ebola was. [br]He explained what the disease was,

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he explained what it did[br]to their communities.

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And he explained that ebola threatened [br]everything that made us human.

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Ebola means you can't hold your children[br]the way you would in this situation.

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You can't bury your dead [br]the way that you would.

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You have to trust these people [br]in the space suits to do that for you.

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And ladies and gentlemen, what [br]happened then was rather extraordinary;

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the community, health workers, Peter, [br]they sat down together

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and they put together a new plan [br]for controlling ebola in that Lofa county.

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And the reason that this is such [br]an important story, ladies and gentlemen,

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is because today, this County, which is [br]right at the center of this epidemic

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you've been watching, [br]you've been seeing on the newspapers,

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you've been seeing on [br]the television screens,

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tody, loafer County is nearly eight weeks [br]without seeing a single case of ebola.

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(Applause)

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Now this doesn't mean that [br]the job is done obviously.

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There still are huge risk that [br]there will be additional cases there.

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But what it does teach us is that [br]ebola can be beaten.

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That's the key thing.

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Even on the scale, even with the rapid [br]kind of growth that we saw

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in this environment here, [br]we now know ebola can be beaten.

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When communities come together [br]with health care workers work together,

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that's when this disease can be stopped.

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But how did ebola end up in Lofa county [br]in the first place?

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Well, for that, we have to go back [br]12 months, to the start of this epidemic.

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And as many you know, [br]this virus went undetected,

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evaded the detection for 3 or 4 months[br]when it began.

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That's because this is not [br]a disease of West Africa,

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it's a disease of Central Africa, [br]half a continent away.

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People hadn't seen the disease before,

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health workers hadn't seen [br]the disease before --

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they didn't know what [br]they were dealing with,

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and they make it [br]even more complicated,

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the virus itself was causing a symptom,[br]is a type of a presentation

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that wasn't classical of the disease.

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So people didn't even recognize [br]a disease, people who knew ebola

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For that reason it evaded a detection [br]for some time,

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But contrary to public belief [br]sometimes these days,

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once the virus was detected, [br]there was a rapid surge in up support.

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MSF rep relief set up [br]the ebola treatment center

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as many of you know, in the area[br]the World Health Organization

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and the partners that worked [br]with deplored

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and eventually hundreds of people [br]over the next two months

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to be able to help track the virus.

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The problem is, ladies and gentlemen,[br]is by then, this virus,

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well known now as ebola, [br]had spread too far.

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It had already outstripped what was [br]one of the largest responses

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that had been mounted so far[br]toward ebola outbreak.

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By the middle of the year,[br]not just Guinea

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but now Sierra Leone and Liberia[br]were also infected.

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And the virus was spreading geographically[br]the numbers were increasing

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and at this time, not only were [br]hundreds of people infected

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and dying of the disease,[br]but as importantly,

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the front line responders,

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the people who to try and help the people,

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the health care workers, the other [br]responders

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were also sick and dying by the dozens.

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The presidents of these countries [br]recognized emergencies

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they met right around that time, [br]they agreed on common action

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and they put together an emergency [br]joint operation center in Conakry

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to try and work together to finish this[br]disease and get it stopped,

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to implement the strategies[br]we talked about.

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But what happened then was something [br]we had never seen before with ebola.

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What happened then was the virus, [br]someone sick with the virus,

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boarded an airplane, [br]flew to another country,

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and for the first time,[br]we saw in another distant country

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the virus pop up again.

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This time it was in Nigeria [br]in the teemy metropolis of Legos

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21 million people.

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Now the virus was in that environment.

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And as you can anticipate, [br]there was international alarm,

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international concern on a scale that [br]we haven't seen in recent years

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caused by a disease like this.

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The World Health Organization immediately [br]called together an expert panel,

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looked at the situation, [br]declared an international emergency.

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And in doing so, the expectations would be[br]that there be a huge outpouring of

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international assistance to help these [br]countries which were in so much trouble

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and concerns at that time.

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But what we saw was [br]something very different.

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There was some great response.

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A number of countries came to assist,[br]many many NGOs and others as you know,

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but at the same time, the opposite [br]happened in many places.

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Alarm through -- alarm escalated and[br]very soon these countries found themselves

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not receiving the support they needed[br]but increasingly isolated.

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What we saw with commercial airlines[br]started flying into these countries

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and people who hadn't even been[br]exposed to the virus

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were no longer allowed to travel.

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This cause not only problems, obviously, [br]for the countries themselves,

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but also for the response.

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Those organizations that we're trying to[br]bring people in,

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to try and help them[br]respond to the outbreak

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they could not get [br]people on airplanes,

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they couldn't get in to the countries[br]to be able to respond.

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In that situation,[br]ladies and gentleman,

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a virus like ebola takes advantage.

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And what we saw then was something [br]also we hadn't seen before.

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Not only did this virus [br]continue in the places

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where they'd already become infected,[br]but then it started to escalate

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and we saw the case numbers that you [br]see here,

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something we never seen before [br]on such a scale

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and exponential increase ebola cases

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not just in these countries or the areas [br]already infected in these countries

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but also spreading further and [br]deeper into these countries.

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Ladies and gentleman, this was one of the

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most concerning international emergencies [br]in public health we've ever seen.

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And what happened in these countries, and [br]many of you saw, again,

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on the televisions, read about in [br]the newspapers,

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we saw the health system start to collapse[br]under the weight of this epidemic.

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We saw the schools begin to close, [br]markets no longer started,

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no longer functioned the way [br]that they should in these countries.

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We saw the misinformation and [br]the misperceptions started to spread

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even faster through the communities [br]which became even more alarmed

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about the situation.

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They started to recoil from those people [br]that you saw in the space suits,

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as they call them, [br]would come to help them.

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And then the situation deteriorated [br]even further.

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The countries had to declare a state of[br]emergency.

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Large populations need to [br]be quarantined in some areas

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and then riots broke out. [br]It was a very very terrifying situation

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And the world many people began to ask

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can we ever stop ebola [br]when it starts to spread like this

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and they started to ask how well [br]do we really know this virus.

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The reality is we don't know [br]ebola extremely well.

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It's a relatively modern disease [br]in terms of what we know about it

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we've known the disease only for [br]forty years since it first popped up

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in Central Africa, 1976.

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But despite that we do know many things,

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we know that this virus probably survives[br]in a type of a bat,

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we know that it probably enters [br]a human population

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when we come in contact with[br]the wild animal that has been

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infected with the virus [br]and probably sickened by it.

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Then we know that the[br]virus spreads from person to person

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through contaminated body fluids.

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And as you've all seen we know [br]the horrific disease at

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it then causes in humans[br]where we see this disease cause

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severe fevers, diarrhea, vomiting, [br]and then

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unfortunately, in 70% of the cases [br]or probably more, death.

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This is a very dangerous, debilitating, [br]and deadly disease.

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But despite the fact that we've not known[br]this disease for a particularly long time,

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and we don't know everything about it,[br]we do know how to stop this disease.

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This four things that are critical to [br]stopping ebola.

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First and foremost, the communities [br]have got to understand this disease,

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they've got to understand [br]how it spreads and how to stop it.

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And then we've got to be able to have [br]a system that could find every single case

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every contact of those cases and [br]begin to track to transmission chains

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so that you can stop transmission.

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We have to have treatment center[br]specialized ebola treatment centers,

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where the workers can be protected[br]as they try to provide support

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to these add to the people [br]who are infected,

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so that they might survive the disease

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and then for those who do die, [br]we have to ensure

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there is a safe, but at the same time, [br]dignified burial process,

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so that there is no spread [br]at that time as well.

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So we do know how to stop ebola and these[br]strategies work, ladies and gentlemen,

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the virus was stopped in Nigeria [br]by these four strategies

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and the people implementing them [br]obviously,

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it was stopped in Senegal where it had[br]spread, and also in the other countries

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that were affected by this virus, [br]in this outbreak.

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So there's no question that [br]these strategies actually work.

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The big question, ladies and gentlemen,[br]was whether these strategies could work

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on this scale, in this situation, with [br]so many countries affected with

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the kinda exponential growth [br]that you saw.

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That was a big question that we were [br]facing just two for three months ago.

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Today, we know [br]the answer to that question.

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We know that answer because of [br]the extraordinary work

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of incredible group of NGOs and [br]governments, of local leaders,

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of UN agencies and many humanitarian [br]and other organizations

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that came and joined the fight, [br]try and stop ebola in West Africa.

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But what had to be done there [br]was slightly different.

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These countries took those strategies [br]I just showed you;

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the communities and community engagement[br]the case finding, contact tracing, etc.

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and they turn them on their head.

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There was so much disease [br]they approached it differently.

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What they decided to do was they would [br]first try and slow down this epidemic

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by rapidly building as many beds [br]as possible so that they specialized

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treatment centers so that they could [br]control, they could prevent the disease

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from spreading from those were infected.

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They would rapidly build out[br]many many burial teams so that

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they could safely [br]deal with the dead.

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With that, they were trying to slow[br]this outbreakts see if it could

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actually then be controlled using [br]the classic approach

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of case finding in contact tracing.

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And when I went to West Africa about [br]three months ago when I was there,

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what I saw was extraordinary

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I saw presidents opening emergency[br]operation centers themselves against ebola

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so that they could personally coordinate [br]and oversee in champion

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this surge of international support [br]to try and stop this disease.

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We saw military's from within [br]those countries in from far beyond

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coming in to help build [br]ebola treatment centers

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that could be used to isolate [br]those who are sick.

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to help train the community [br]so that they could actually

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We saw the Red Cross movement working with[br]its partner agencies on the ground there

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safely bury their dead[br]in a dignified manner themselves,

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and we saw the UN agencies the World Food [br]Programme build a tremendous

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air bridge that could get responders [br]to every single corner at these countries

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rapidly to be able to implement [br]the strategies that we just talked about.

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What we saw, ladies and gentlemen, [br]which is probably most impressive

0:14:57.965,0:15:02.025
was just incredible work by the government[br]by the leaders in these countries

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with the communities to try insure people[br]understood this disease,

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understood the extraordinary things they [br]would have to do to try and stop ebola.

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And as a result, ladies and gentlemen,[br]we saw something that we did not know

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only two or three months earlier[br]whether or not it would be possible.

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What we saw was what you see now [br]in this graph,

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when we took stock [br]on the first of December.

0:15:27.333,0:15:30.907
what we saw was we could bend that curve, [br]so to speak,

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change this exponential growth[br]and bring some hope back

0:15:34.373,0:15:37.003
to the ability to control this outbreak.

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And for this reason, ladies and gentlemen,

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there's absolutely no question now [br]that we can catch up with this outbreak

0:15:43.475,0:15:46.715
in West Africa, and we can beat ebola.

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The big question though is that [br]many people are asking even when

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they saw this curve, they said, [br]"hang on a minute, that's great

0:15:53.519,0:15:57.457
you can slow it down, but can you [br]actually drive it down to zero?"

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Now we already answered that question [br]at right back the beginning of this talk

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when I spoke about Lofa county [br]in Liberia,

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we told you the story haw Lofa county [br]got to a situation where they have

0:16:12.063,0:16:14.896
not seen ebola for eight weeks.[br]But this similar stories

0:16:14.896,0:16:19.566
from the other countries as well, [br]from GuĂŠckĂŠdou in Guinea,

0:16:19.566,0:16:23.930
the first area where the first case was[br]actually diagnosed.

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We've seen very very few cases[br]in the last couple of months,

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and here in Kenema, in Sierra Leone, [br]another area in the epicenter,

0:16:33.175,0:16:36.885
we have not seen the virus for more than [br]a couple of weeks --

0:16:36.886,0:16:41.386
way too early to declare victory obviously[br]but evidence, ladies and gentlemen,

0:16:41.429,0:16:46.129
not only can the response catch up [br]to the disease but this disease

0:16:46.133,0:16:50.633
can be driven to zero. The challenge now, [br]of course, is doing this

0:16:50.633,0:16:55.743
on the scale needed right across these [br]three countries,

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and that is a huge challenge. Because [br]when you've been at something

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for this long, on this scale, two other [br]big threats come in to join the virus.

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The first of those is complacency. [br]The risk that as this disease

0:17:11.851,0:17:15.931
curve starts to bend, the media look [br]elsewhere, the world looks elsewhere.

0:17:16.155,0:17:19.565
Complacency always a risk. [br]And the other risk of course is

0:17:19.586,0:17:23.887
when you've been working so hard [br]for so long and slept so few hours

0:17:23.887,0:17:28.937
over the past months, people are tired, [br]people become fatigued and these new risks

0:17:28.947,0:17:34.327
start to creep into the response. [br]Ladies and gentlemen, I can tell you today

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I've just come back from West Africa. [br]The people of this countries,

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the leaders of these countries, [br]they are not complacent.

0:17:42.173,0:17:45.603
They want to drive ebola to zero [br]in their countries.

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And these people, yes they're tired, [br]but they are not fatigued.

0:17:48.913,0:17:51.580
They have an energy, they have a courage,

0:17:51.580,0:17:54.637
they have the strength [br]to get this finished.

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What they need, ladies and gentlemen, [br]at this point, is the unwavering support

0:17:58.880,0:18:03.430
of the international community, to stand [br]with them, to bolster and bring even more

0:18:03.460,0:18:08.477
support at this time, to get the [br]job finished. Because finishing ebola

0:18:08.477,0:18:13.147
right now means turning the tables [br]on this virus, and beginning to hunt it.

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Remember, this virus, this whole crisis, [br]rather, started with one case,

0:18:17.749,0:18:23.779
and is going to finish with one case. [br]But it will only finish if those countries

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have got enough epidemiologist, [br]enough health workers, enough logisticians

0:18:27.806,0:18:31.296
and enough other people working with them[br]to be able to find every one of

0:18:31.296,0:18:35.796
those cases track their contacts and make[br]sure that this disease stops

0:18:35.836,0:18:39.154
once and for all.[br]I can tell you just having come back,

0:18:39.154,0:18:44.201
they are not complacent, they are not [br]fatigued, and they will finish the job,

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if they had the support that they need.

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Ladies and gentleman, you know the story [br]of ebola, we just told you the story

0:18:50.776,0:18:56.460
of ebola, ebola can be beaten. [br]Now we need you to take this story out

0:18:56.460,0:19:00.274
to tell it to the people who will listen [br]and educate them on what it means

0:19:00.274,0:19:04.994
to beat ebola, and more importantly,[br]we need you to advocate with the people

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who can help us bring the resources we[br]need to these countries,

0:19:09.127,0:19:10.847
to beat this disease.

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Ladies and gentleman, there are a lot of [br]people out there who will survive and

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will thrive, in part, because of [br]what you do to help us beat ebola.

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Thank you.

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(Applause)