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A major issue at the President Council
meeting today on Ebola

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was how to communicate
the second phase,

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now when the numbers are down to about
10 cases per day in the country.

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The discussion was
how to handle zero.

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In many public health campaigns,
we say "zero traffic deaths",

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but we really don't mean
zero traffic deaths.

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We mean that we want to
get them as low as possible.

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If we use that in Ebola,

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it has to be used in a way
so people really realize

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that we have to eliminate human
to human transmission completely.

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The first message in Liberia
was, "Ebola is real".

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Today, the population of this country

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is sadly aware that Ebola is real.

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The new message now will be,
"Ebola must go".

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I think that's a good message

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because it doesn't put a time limit.

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Because we need endurance: this may
take months, half a year.

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Liberia is not
in control of the future

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because the neighboring countries
also have Ebola

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and they have
much more than Liberia.

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So the whole region
has to be freed from it.

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The longer I work here -I'm here
for the seventh week now-

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the more I realize
how huge this task is.

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This has never been done before.

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An African big city
with generalized Ebola epidemics

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that hasn't existed before,

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no one has done what we have to do
the next few months here.

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We have to clear Monrovia
and the Montserrado County completely

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from Ebola transmission.

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It's a huge task, but
it can be done, it's possible.

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We just need to get organized

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with all the resources
that are now available.