But the plan to take it under full state control has been criticised by some, including Mahathir Mohamad, a former prime minister.
UNICEF Thailand Representative Bijaya Rajbhandari said the virus, which to date has claimed more than 4,000 lives in four West African countries and one fatality in the United States, "could threaten the lives of millions of others unless urgent action is taken to bring it under control".
But on January 22nd the boss of the World Health Organisation (WHO), Margaret Chan, said it would still take years to bring it under control.
In our meeting with him, he was outspoken about the need to fight Indonesia's rampant corruption, candidly admitting it would take years to bring it under control.
If the tanker was going full steam ahead in 1999, it took until 2007 to get it under control.
OK, so let's get this match under way, and take it that Bouchard has the occasion under control.
On Thursday, officials admitted that they did not know how long the disease had been incubating, how far it would spread or how long it would take to bring under control.
"Once crime gets out of control, it takes years to get it back under control, and a safe city equals an economically strong city".
The April 2010 blow-out of BP's well killed 11 and caused vast damage to fisheries and the environment in the three months it took to get under control.
The Labour leader said overseas territories had been brought under direct rule during the financial crisis of 2008-09 and said it was simple to take them under control immediately.
