US military mobilization 3,000 people, "priority of security" on the Obama administration

The 16th, Obama administration made ​​it clear policy towards the containment of the Ebola hemorrhagic fever to expand in West Africa, to mobilize about 3,000 American military personnel.

According to government officials, President Obama positioned as a "priority of security" on the Ebola measures. We have been unlikely that the United States military is involved in treatment activities directly to this, but in addition to the 100 people over staff the United States Centers for Disease Control and Prevention that is dispatched of (CDC), is the military center of the Ebola measures of the United States in the future responsible.

16 afternoon, President Obama express visit CDC of the United States Georgia. Encourage the strengthening support to countries at meetings of Ebola measures in accordance with the UN General Assembly this month.

The United States have expressed support about 100 million 75 million U.S. dollars (about 18.9 billion yen), etc. Liberia, but to ask the Congress spending of about $ 88 million from a new budget for the Department of Defense to prepare for contingencies overseas .



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オバマ米政権は１６日、西アフリカで拡大するエボラ出血熱の封じ込めに向け、米軍関係者約３千人を動員する方針を明らかにした。

　政府高官によると、オバマ大統領はエボラ熱対策を「安全保障上の優先事項」と位置付け。これまで米軍が直接治療活動に関わることはないとしてきたが、現地に派遣している米疾病対策センター（ＣＤＣ）のスタッフ１００人超に加え、今後は米国のエボラ熱対策の中心を軍が担う。

　オバマ大統領が１６日午後、米ジョージア州のＣＤＣを訪れて表明する。今月の国連総会に合わせたエボラ熱対策の会合でも各国に支援強化を促す。

　米国はリベリアなどに約１億７５００万ドル（約１８９億円）の支援を表明しているが、海外の不測事態に備えた国防総省の予算から新たに約８８００万ドルの支出を議会に求める。（共同）