President Obama said yesterday that though the likelihood
of an Ebola outbreak in the US is "extremely low' but they
have to react. "We're also going to be working on protocols
to do additional passenger screening both at the source
and here in the United States.
Countries that think that they can sit on the sidelines and
just let the United States do it, that will result in a less
effective response, a less speedy response, and that
means that people die."
"And it also means that the potential spread of the disease
beyond these areas in West Africa becomes more
imminent," President Obama said at the White House
briefing with US health officials The Liberian man who
became the first case of Ebola diagnosed on American soil,
Thomas Eric Duncan, is in a critical condition in a hospital
isolation unit in Dallas.