We need to move quickly to deploy more health workers and provide more mobile laboratories, more clinics, and more rapid testing equipment.
Dr. Margaret Chan, Director-General WHO, described the extent of the Ebola response: "Development partners, including many African countries, provided funds, equipment, mobile laboratories, and training.
In the classified version of the report, the officials said, nearly three pages are devoted to questioning the credibility of the defector, who was one of four human sources cited last year by Secretary of State Colin L. Powell in a speech to the United Nations as having provided crucial information about Iraq's mobile laboratories.
In the interview last October, the senior intelligence officials described the human intelligence as providing "brand new information" beginning in 2000 about mobile laboratories.
In another letter to the E.P.A. last week, they recommended that the agency provide resources, including a team in town five days a week and mobile laboratories to monitor air quality and chemical concentrations, as well as other measures.
To provide medical surveillance of workers exposed to risk of internal contamination, IRSN (French Institute for Radiological Protection and Nuclear Safety) has developed two mobile laboratories for on-site monitoring.
*Developed mobile laboratories for military use.
The Bush administration has accused Iraq of having mobile laboratories to make germ and chemical weapons.
The defector said mobile laboratories had been used to produce anthrax, botulism and staphylococcus.
The expert said the containers did not seem to be mobile laboratories.
