Africa's Ministers Push For Ebola Co-ordination Team

African health ministers attending a high-level meeting following the Ebola outbreak in Uganda want two regional health bodies to set up an Africa Ebola coordination task force.<br />They say this would oversee preparedness and response to the current outbreak as well as other epidemics in the continent.<br />Acting director of the Africa Centres for Disease Control, Ahmed Ogwell, says Africa needs to stop seeking international assistance, as it is on its own during pandemics.<br />The Africa CDC says the continent is dealing with 11 different public health outbreaks. They are monkeypox, cholera, flooding, influenza, Lassa fever, measles, yellow fever, hepatitis E, and the Crimean - Congo hemorrhagic fever.