China plays active role in combating emerging global infectious diseases: Vice Premier

China takes seriously the prevention and control of emerging infectious diseases and has played an active role in global emergency response to such health threats, visiting Chinese Vice Premier Liu Yandong said here Wednesday. Liu took China’s response to the Ebola outbreak in West Africa as an example, saying that China has provided four rounds of humanitarian aid with a combined value of 750 million renminbi ( about 120 million US dollars), sent more than 1,000 medical staff to the affected countries, treated more than 900 patients, and trained more than 13,000 medical workers for Sierra Leone, Liberia, Guinea and their neighboring countries since the outbreak of the deadly disease. It’s “the largest-ever foreign medical aid program in the history of new China,” Liu said in a keynote speech in the US National Institutes of Health, where a symposium on Ebola, research and global health security was held as part of the...