Expressing the sense of the House of Representatives that the current outbreak of Ebola in Guinea, Sierra Leone, and Liberia is an international health crisis and is the largest and most widespread outbreak of the disease ever recorded.

H. Res. 701 · 113th Congress · Jul 31, 2014 · Lineage

RESOLUTION

That the House of Representatives—

(1)

asserts that the current outbreak of Ebola in Guinea, Sierra Leone, and Liberia is an international health crisis and is the largest and most widespread outbreak of the disease ever recorded;

(2)

acknowledges the lifesaving work already done by the Ministry of Health of Guinea, the Ministry of Health and Sanitation of Sierra Leone, and the Ministry of Health and Social Welfare of Liberia, the United States Government, the World Health Organization, Doctors Without Borders, and other international partners;

(3)

calls on the international community and all nations to immediately provide additional resources and services to develop the capacity of affected nations to address current and future public health crises;

(4)

requests that the United States work in a coordinated capacity to develop a unified global health security plan to adequately respond to disease outbreaks globally and prioritize global health security;

(5)

calls upon the United States to work with international health authorities to assist endemic nations in the development and fielding of medical countermeasures (diagnostics, vaccines, and therapeutics) to treat victims and those at risk of Ebola; and

(6)

urges the United States Government to prioritize the elimination of Ebola as a public health threat.

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Jul 31, 2014viewing Introduced in House Ms. Bass (for herself, Mrs. Davis of California, Mr. Cicilline, Mr. Crowley, Mr. Hastings of Florida, Mr. Honda, Ms. Jackson Lee, Ms. Lee of California, Mr. Levin, Ms. McCollum, Mr. McGovern, Mr. Rush, Mr. Wolf, Mr. Lewis, Mr. Price of North Carolina, Mr. Meeks, Mr. Conyers, Mr. Carson of Indiana, Mr. Clyburn, Mr. Ellison, Ms. Norton, Ms. Brown of Florida, Mr. Danny K. Davis of Illinois, Mr. Fattah, Mr. Al Green of Texas, Ms. Eddie Bernice Johnson of Texas, Ms. Moore, Mr. Payne, Mr. Rangel, Mr. Richmond, Mr. David Scott of Georgia, Ms. Sewell of Alabama, Ms. Wilson of Florida, Ms. Kelly of Illinois, Ms. Clarke of New York, Mrs. Christensen, Mr. Thompson of Mississippi, Mr. Sires, Mr. Connolly, Mr. Deutch, Mr. Engel, Ms. Gabbard, Mr. Keating, Mr. Lowenthal, Mr. Schneider, Mr. Vargas, Ms. Frankel of Florida, Mr. Marino, Ms. Ros-Lehtinen, Mr. Chabot, Mr. Poe of Texas, Mr. Rohrabacher, Mr. Salmon, Ms. Roybal-Allard, Ms. Kuster, Ms. Brownley of California, Mrs. Negrete McLeod, and Mr. McDermott) submitted the following resolution; which was referred to the Committee on Foreign Affairs

Expressing the sense of the House of Representatives that the current outbreak of Ebola in Guinea, Sierra Leone, and Liberia is an international health crisis and is the largest and most widespread outbreak of the disease ever recorded.

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