In his address, the President called the Ebola outbreak a matter of national security.
But farmers said the outbreak's source mattered little.
He added that the "legal implications" of the outbreak would be a matter of continued discussions with officials.
To make matters worse, outbreaks of a highly contagious fever in Latin America had led to widespread civil unrest, making travel in the region hazardous.
As medical doctors who understand well both the continent of Africa and infectious disease control, we are confident that the Ebola virus disease response plan, led both by the countries and the World Health Organization, can contain this Ebola outbreak and, in a matter of months, extinguish it.
With the outbreak of BSE this matter resurfaced, however, none of these problems led to a major heparin recall across the globe.
Open data sharing has already reduced outbreak attribution to a matter of weeks, as evidenced by the "crowd-sourced" responses to the swine flu [ 8] and Escherichia coli O104:H4 [ 9] outbreaks, while the NIAID Influenza Genome Sequencing Project, spearheaded by The Institute for Genomic Research (now JCVI) [ 10], has hinted at the predictive potential.
We can use microbial DNA to trace disease outbreaks in a matter of hours.
With the outbreak of World War I, matters deteriorated seriously, and in 1918 the family sold Lundy to Augustus Langham Christie.
When the existence of the colossal Hanslope Park stash was revealed, the noted Oxford University historian Margaret Macmillan wondered if she would "have to go back and rethink my work on such matters as the outbreak of the First World War".
