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CDC director: To keep Ebola away, fight it in Africa
Natalie DiBlasio, USA TODAY 1:21 p.m. EDT October 5, 2014
The first priority of federal health officials is to protect Americans from Ebola, but "an outbreak anywhere is potentially a threat everywhere," the head of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said Sunday.
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Frieden stressed the importance of taking the battle against Ebola to Africa.
"If we make it harder to fight Ebola in West Africa, we actually increase our own risk," he said. He added that everyone leaving Guinea, Liberia, and Sierra Leone is being screened and that the CDC is looking at a plan to screen everyone coming into the U.S. from those nations.
"We've seen a lot of understandable concern because of the deadly nature of Ebola," he said. "We want (people) to be scared. We want them to have a healthy respect."
The CDC received 50 calls or emails per day before the individual was diagnosed Now, it's up to about 800 calls or emails per day.
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http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/world/2014/10/05/cdc-ebola-missing/16766919/
Natalie DiBlasio, USA TODAY 1:21 p.m. EDT October 5, 2014
The first priority of federal health officials is to protect Americans from Ebola, but "an outbreak anywhere is potentially a threat everywhere," the head of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said Sunday.
...
Frieden stressed the importance of taking the battle against Ebola to Africa.
"If we make it harder to fight Ebola in West Africa, we actually increase our own risk," he said. He added that everyone leaving Guinea, Liberia, and Sierra Leone is being screened and that the CDC is looking at a plan to screen everyone coming into the U.S. from those nations.
"We've seen a lot of understandable concern because of the deadly nature of Ebola," he said. "We want (people) to be scared. We want them to have a healthy respect."
The CDC received 50 calls or emails per day before the individual was diagnosed Now, it's up to about 800 calls or emails per day.
...
http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/world/2014/10/05/cdc-ebola-missing/16766919/