Credit: Reuters/Jonathan Ernst
U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) educational materials are displayed at a hearing of a House Foreign Affairs subcommittee, about the Ebola crisis in West Africa, on Capitol Hill in Washington August 7, 2014.
Dr Thomas Frieden, director of the U.S. health agency who had just returned from a tour of West Africa, said he expected the number of Ebola cases to accelerate in the next two weeks and urged governments to act now to respond.
'The challenge isn't knowing what to do. The challenge is doing it now,' Frieden said in a conference call with reporters.
He said the current outbreak now affecting Guinea, Sierra Leone, Liberia and Nigeria is 'threatening the stability' of affected and neighboring countries.
(Reporting by Julie Steenhuysen; Editing by Chizu Nomiyama)
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