On September 15, 2014, the UN Security Council adopted Resolution 2177, “[d]etermining that the unprecedented extent of the Ebola outbreak in Africa constitutes a threat to international peace and security” and calling on Member States to respond urgently to the emergency while also refraining from isolating the affected countries. In the Resolution, the Security Council “[e]xspresses concern about the detrimental effect of the isolation of the affected countries as a result of trade and travel restrictions imposed on and to the affected countries,” and “[c]alls on Member States, including of the region, to lift general travel and border restrictions, imposed as a result of the Ebola outbreak, and that contribute to the further isolation of the affected countries and undermine their efforts to respond to the Ebola outbreak.”