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President Obama on Tuesday called the Ebola virus an epidemic unlike any the world has seen, and he pledged to ramp up the U.S. response while calling on other countries and charities to join in and act urgently.

The virus is spreading faster and exponentially, Obama told doctors, nurses and researchers at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention here.

If the outbreak is not stopped now, we could be looking at hundreds of thousands of people affected, he said, contending that there will be serious security implications beyond the affected nations in West Africa.

With that risk in mind, Obama said he is ordering the military to set up a joint force headquarters in Liberia to coordinate international relief, help build 17 new Ebola treatment units and support medical experts flooding the region.

The effort will involve an estimated 3,000 U.S. military personnel, according to the White House, and military medical staff will begin training 500 healthcare providers a week to care for patients and prevent transmission of the virus.

The timing of the U.S. response, months after the outbreak started and well after it raged across West Africa, puts pressure on the administration to act on its pledge as soon as possible, experts warned.

Laurie Garrett, a global health and infectious diseases expert at the Council on Foreign Relations, expressed cautious optimism about Obamas plan. She called it a game-changing start that could rally other international partners to increase their involvement. But she worried it could take weeks for the resources to be in place, and longer to train and organize the needed brigade of healthcare workers from around the world.

Right now, the virus is in charge. Its spreading far faster than any reaction from international players, she said. To get ahead of the virus, we need to have a massive presence on the ground yesterday.

Noting that the U.S. has spent more than $100 million on equipment, logistics and support for community health workers in the region, advisors to the president contended that his timing is appropriate.

The new assistance comes as the need grows, White House Press Secretary Josh Earnest insisted.

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Obama ramping up U.S. response in Ebola outbreak

President Obama said Tuesday the United States will launch a major, military-led response in West Africa to the deadly Ebola outbreak that has reached epidemic proportions and now poses a potential threat to global security.

Obama announced the stepped-up effort against the virus, which has killed at least 2,400 people in five West African countries, at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in Atlanta.

He said the response was the largest in the Centers 68-year history and that the Defense Department was chosen to lead field operations because it was better that any other organization on earth in such efforts.

Its spreading out of control, Obama said. We have to act fast. We cannot dawdle on this one. We have to move with force.

Published reports earlier in the day said Obama would announce that he was sending 3,000 military personnel. But he did not say in his roughly 15-minute announcement how many people would be deployed.

Obama said the U.S. would also lead the international response by providing medical and logistical support to help the regions overwhelmed health-care systems. He also said he would increase the number of beds needed in the region to isolate and treat victims of the epidemic.

Faced with this outbreak, the world is looking to the United States, Obama said.

The president said the possibility of an outbreak in the United States is extremely low. However, he said officials are taking extra precautions including advanced airport screenings and preparing hospital personnel in the unlikely event the virus reaches this country.

The Defense Department has asked Congress for nearly $500 million in existing funds to be put toward the effort.

The new initiatives include training as many as 500 health care workers a week; erecting 17 health-care facilities with roughly 100 beds each; setting up a joint command headquartered in Liberia to coordinate between U.S. and international relief efforts; providing home health-care kits to hundreds of thousands of households, including 50,000 that the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) will deliver this week.

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President Obama spoke Tuesday about the U.S. plan to fight the Ebola epidemic in West Africa, speaking at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. The White House plan reportedly includes deploying 3,000 U.S. military personnel and training health care providers in Liberia. Mandel Ngan/AFP/Getty Images hide caption

President Obama spoke Tuesday about the U.S. plan to fight the Ebola epidemic in West Africa, speaking at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. The White House plan reportedly includes deploying 3,000 U.S. military personnel and training health care providers in Liberia.

President Obama announced details of his plan Tuesday to help contain the Ebola outbreak that has caused more than 2,400 deaths in West Africa. The strategy reportedly includes sending up to 3,000 military personnel to the region.

Obama spoke at the Atlanta headquarters of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention on Tuesday afternoon.

Update at 4:18 p.m. ET: 'It Doesn't Have To Be This Way'

The president describes "a major increase in our response." Some details:

He also called on other nations to follow through on the promises they've made to help, and he encouraged charities and philanthropists to remain involved.

The president closed his remarks by telling the story of a family that has been fractured by the viral disease, saying that some of its children are simply "waiting to die, right now."

"It doesn't have to be this way," Obama said. And while he acknowledged that the situation will likely get worse before it improves, he also said that the world has a responsibility to act.

Update at 4:10 p.m. ET: 'A Potential Threat To Global Security'

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