TRUMP SOUNDS ALARM ON EBOLA OUTBREAK — “I’M CONCERNED” AS ADMINISTRATION MOVES SWIFTLY TO PROTECT AMERICANS
President Donald Trump directly addressed the growing Ebola outbreak in Africa during a White House press availability.
“Should Americans be concerned about Ebola?” a reporter asked.
“I’m concerned about everything, but certainly I am,” Trump replied. “I think that, you know, it’s been confined right now to Africa, and but it’s something that has had a breakout.”
He offered to have health officials expand on the response, leading Dr. Heidi Overton, deputy director of the White House Domestic Policy Council, to brief the room.
Overton stated: “Today, the CDC held a press briefing that provided a lot of the answers and information, but we have stood up a full interagency response. The Department of State, the C.D.C., the Department of War, everyone is fully involved in tracking.”
She continued: “There is an American that is symptomatic and has tested positive for a—it’s the Bundibugyo virus, a strain of Ebola. That American, as well as six other high-risk contacts, are going to be taken out of that region and taken to Germany. We want to thank our German counterparts.”
Overton added: “We have issued travel warnings. We have instituted, just today, entry restrictions for non-U.S. citizens that have been in the region in the past 21 days—so in Uganda, Democratic Republic of Congo, and South Sudan. Right now there are no cases of Ebola in America. We want to keep it that way.”
