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plant yield of the ZMapp antibodies or as suggested by some, that we go to CHO cells. She wanted me to contact the Agriculture people at the BMGF where she used to work to get their opinion. I called and spoke with Susan Hellmann (President of BMGF), Chris Elias (BMGF), Rob Horsch (Ag expert at BMGF), Larry Zeitlin (CEO of Mapp Biopharmaceutical to get their opinion. Consensus is that it will take too long to fix the poor yield in tobacco and that we should go for CHO in 2 of the 3 antibodies. The 3rd does not do well in CHO and so stick with tobacco on that one. I wrote a long e-mail to Sylvia explaining this. Press - CNN with Erin Burnett News still dominated by ISIS who beheaded another USA journalist; Russia invading eastern Ukraine; Gaza and Ebola Sept. 3, 2014 - Big meeting at World Bank Headquarters on 18th Street, N.W. to exam and discuss the response to Ebola. Jim Kim (President of World Bank) specifically invited me (as did Paul Farmer), Discussed the WHO Roadmap and David Nabarro's UN Plan. Present at meeting were: Tom Frieden, Jim Kim, Tim Evans (Senior Director, GHNDR), Jan Eliasson (Deputy Secretary General, UN), Margaret Chan (DirectorGeneral, WHO), Gayle Smith (by phone - Special Assistant to the POTUS at NSC), Mark Dybul (by Phone), Keiji Fukuda (WHO), Raj Panjabi (Harvard), Ariel PablosMendez (USAID), Jimmy Kolker (HHS), Joia Mukhajee (PIH)Sri Mulyani Indrrawati (World Bank), Olusoji Adeyi (World Bank), and other World Bank people. Jim Kim took the lead and emphasized that we need to translate "planning" into action and took Margaret Chan to task for not exercising her authorities under the International Health Regulations (IHR) to take the lead. Despite Jim Kim's strong urging, it still appears that we are not headed to great action. David Nabarro had some action items with no way to actually act. I mentioned gently to Margaret that she should not say that "We plan to have to Epidemic under control in 6 months" since this would signal to the world that we actually have a way of ending it in 6 months, when in fact we have no idea when it will end given the exponential nature of the increase in cases. I also told story of when Colin Powell and I went to the UNGASS in the early 2000s and he declared the AIDS pandemic a global security threat and this got the attention of everyone. We should do the same thing with Ebola. Press - MSNBC with Peter Alexander; Fox News with Lou Dobbs. Sept. 4, 2014 - After discussions with me and having me see and edit his column, Mike Gerson wrote a scorching editorial in today's Washington Post criticizing the world and the White House for not doing more for the Ebola situation. In my discussions with Mike, he indicated that when he was in the WH with Josh Bolton as Chief-of-Staff, they would have pushed George W. Bush and he would have responded to do something dramatic to help West Africa. Mike sent me a note that Denis McDonough (Obama Chief-of-Staff) sent to Mike in response to Mike sending Denis a copy of the article. Denis note to Mike below: