President Obama told the Washington
public health official that stopping the increase of Ebola virus is the top
national security priority.
“An issue about safety is also an
issue with respect to political stability and the economic stability,”
Obama said. President also said that the United States is now working on
protocols for the air passenger screening at home and in West Africa.
Health officials say that they opposed
to ban travelers from Ebola—infected countries because it would be counterproductive.
“But that isolates the countries
to the point where it makes it very difficult for them to control the epidemic,”
Dr. Fauci of NIH (National Institutes of Health) said. “And if happens it will spread across
other African countries and then you’ll magnify the problem and make it even
worse than it is, so virtually all health officials feel that essentially
closing off a country is not a productive endeavor at all.”
United States has six Ebola cases
in recent weeks. Five Americans and Liberian national Duncan
President Obama is now calling other
countries to step and do more to fight Ebola virus, which killed 3,500 people.
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