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He explained what the disease was.
When communities come together with health care workers, work together, that's when this disease can be stopped.
That's because this is not a disease of West Africa, it's a disease of Central Africa, half a continent away.
People hadn't seen the disease before; health workers hadn't seen the disease before.
They didn't know what they were dealing with, and to make it even more complicated, the virus itself was causing a symptom, a type of a presentation that wasn't classical of the disease.
So people didn't even recognize the disease, people who knew Ebola.
As the virus was spreading geographically, the numbers were increasing and at this time, not only were hundreds of people infected and dying of the disease, but as importantly, the front line responders, the people who had gone to try and help, the health care workers, the other responders were also sick and dying by the dozens.
They met right around that time, they agreed on common action and they put together an emergency joint operation center in Conakry to try and work together to finish this disease and get it stopped, to implement the strategies we talked about.
And as you can anticipate, there was international alarm, international concern on a scale that we hadn't seen in recent years caused by a disease like this.
It's a relatively modern disease in terms of what we know about it.
We've known the disease only for 40 years, since it first popped up in Central Africa in 1976.
And as you've all seen, we know the horrific disease that it then causes in humans, where we see this disease cause severe fevers, diarrhea, vomiting, and then unfortunately, in 70 percent of the cases or often more, death.
This is a very dangerous, debilitating, and deadly disease.
But despite the fact that we've not known this disease for a particularly long time, and we don't know everything about it, we do know how to stop this disease.
First and foremost, the communities have got to understand this disease, they've got to understand how it spreads and how to stop it.
We have to have treatment centers, specialized Ebola treatment centers, where the workers can be protected as they try to provide support to the people who are infected, so that they might survive the disease.
There was so much disease, they approached it differently.
What they decided to do was they would first try and slow down this epidemic by rapidly building as many beds as possible in specialized treatment centers so that they could prevent the disease from spreading from those were infected.
I saw presidents opening emergency operation centers themselves against Ebola so that they could personally coordinate and oversee and champion this surge of international support to try and stop this disease.
What we saw, ladies and gentlemen, which was probably most impressive, was this incredible work by the governments, by the leaders in these countries, with the communities, to try to ensure people understood this disease, understood the extraordinary things they would have to do to try and stop Ebola.
The first of those is complacency, the risk that as this disease curve starts to bend, the media look elsewhere, the world looks elsewhere.
But it will only finish if those countries have got enough epidemiologists, enough health workers, enough logisticians and enough other people working with them to be able to find every one of those cases, track their contacts and make sure that this disease stops once and for all.
Now we need you to take this story out to tell it to the people who will listen and educate them on what it means to beat Ebola, and more importantly, we need you to advocate with the people who can help us bring the resources we need to these countries, to beat this disease.
This can do enormous good for the two billion people that suffer globally with brain disease.
They had no disease.
But some of the monarchs were sick, and what I found is that some of these milkweeds are medicinal, meaning they reduce the disease symptoms in the monarch butterflies, meaning these monarchs can live longer when they are infected when feeding on these medicinal plants.
The answer is actually none of these; it's Alzheimer's disease.
It was one of the scariest moments I've ever experienced in my life, and it was also the first instance that informed us that my grandfather had Alzheimer's disease.
So sensor data, collected on a vast number of patients, can be useful for improving patient care and also leading to a cure for the disease, possibly.
Imagine for a moment that we are in a city that has never had a case of a particular disease, such as the measles.
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