On the heels of the United Nations saying it lacked the resources necessary to stop the Ebola outbreak in west Africa, President Obama is asking Congress for billions in aid to fight the killer virus.

The President wants $6.18 billion to fund efforts both within the U.S. and in Africa to combat the virus.

“The funding is needed immediately to strengthen and sustain our whole-of-government response to strengthen preparedness in the U.S. and to help end the Ebola epidemic at its source in West Africa, and to prevent disease outbreaks, detect them early, and swiftly respond before they become epidemics that threaten the American people,” the administration said.  “It’s in situations like this one, when activities surpass the current level of funding, that the request is deemed an emergency.”

The World Health Organization reported Wednesday that the death toll is at least 4,818 people out of 13,042 confirmed cases.

The head of the U.N. mission fighting the virus said there are still villages in the impacted countries that have received no aid or help from outside their nation.

“It’s not here yet,” Tony Banbury said about the needed resources. “There are still people, villages, towns [and] areas that [are] not getting any type of help right now and we definitely don’t have the response capability on the ground now from the international community.”