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I'm professor Hans Rosling.

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I'm standing on the roof of my hotel[br]in Monrovia, the capital of Liberia.

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Now it's a peaceful city, but just[br]a little more than 10 years ago

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ended a cruel civil war here.

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After that, the economy[br]of the country was broken,

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health services and schools were down;

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but now, in the last ten years,[br]things had been improving:

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there were a fast economic growth,

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people were coming out of extreme poverty,

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and health was improving.

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Ebola put a stop to that.

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The relation between extreme poverty[br]and Ebola go both ways.

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Extreme poverty was a major reason

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to why the outbreak of Ebola[br]became so huge here:

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people live so crammed in the slum here,

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they don't have water and sanitation.

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When someone started[br]to vomit and got sick,

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the whole family got infected!

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And now, when Ebola is here,

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it stops businesses,[br]economy comes to a standstill,

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people lose their job[br]and poverty gets worse!

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So, in order for Liberia[br]to fight the extreme poverty,

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they must start by fighting Ebola.

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And when Ebola is gone[br]- because it has to go down to zero -

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the best way to prevent[br]Ebola from coming back

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is to fight and put an end[br]to extreme poverty.

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Now, for the rest of us,[br]living in other parts of the world,

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at better economic levels,[br]we also have a reason to fight Ebola,

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because it is a global security reason[br]of immense proportions!

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And I have grandchildren:[br]I don't want them to live in a world

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where Ebola virus[br]travels around the world.

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So how could I stop it?

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There's no better way of stopping Ebola[br]than come here in West Africa,

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and fight it side by side[br]by the people in these countries.

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And my experience here[br]in Liberia is very positive:

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there's a fantastic response[br]against Ebola among the professionals,

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the government, and especially[br]the people themselves.