Ebola will become just as deadly of a threat as AIDS without action, Centers for Disease Control Director Tom Frieden said Thursday.
This is the latest in the response to the deadly outbreak of Ebola and the effort to not let the pandemic spread stateside.
The Hill reported:
"The only thing like this has been AIDS. And we have to work now so that this is not the world's next AIDS," Frieden said.
The AIDS pandemic started in Africa in the 1980s and has killed 36 million people. It took more than a decade to develop effective treatments to cut the death rate and even longer to erase the stigma associated with AIDS.
The current Ebola epidemic — a first of its kind in world history — has killed nearly 4,000 people since last year and shows little sign of abating in three West African countries.