Friday 17 October 2014

Obama appoints Ebola 'czar;' West African death toll rises

Obama pauses as he talks next to U.S. Secretary of HHS Burwell and Director of the CDC Frieden after meeting with his team coordinating the government's Ebola response in the Oval Office of the White House in Washington By Jeff Mason WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Barack Obama appointed a former White House adviser as U.S. Ebola "czar" on Friday as the global death toll from the disease that has ravaged three West African countries rose to more than 4,500. Amid growing concerns about the spread of the virus in the United States, authorities said a Texas health worker who is not ill but who may have had contact with specimens from an Ebola patient was quarantined on a cruise ship that departed last Sunday from the port of Galveston, Texas. ...




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