Sunday 7 September 2014

Obama: U.S. must fight Ebola now or face long-term risk

Volunteers lower a corpse, which is prepared with safe burial practices, into a grave in Kailahun The United States needs to do more to help control West Africa's deadly Ebola outbreak to stop it becoming a global crisis that could one day threaten Americans, President Barack Obama said in an interview. Obama told NBC's "Meet the Press" that the outbreak, which has killed 2,100 people in African five countries, was unlikely to spread to the United States in the short term. "If we don't make that effort now, and this spreads not just through Africa but other parts of the world, there's the prospect then that the virus mutates. "If we do that, then it's still going to be months before this problem is controllable in Africa," he said.




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