Peter Pilot warned that Europe will be ‘vulnerable’ if it does not regard viruses as a ‘national security issue’ like the United States.

He said, "It's time the UK and Europe had a well-trained corps of people who are globally experienced and deployable. We don't have that and that makes us vulnerable. We don't have this 'epidemic intelligence service'. You don't want to depend on information coming from the US. That's a national security issue."
Piot has been highly critical of the delay in local and international responses to the Ebola outbreak in West Africa, but said that now the effort is paying off.
Source-Medindia