Do not allow West Africans into US over Ebola: Rep. to Obama
A plane arrives at New York's John F. Kennedy International Airport.
Tue Oct 14, 2014 6:16AM GMT
A Republican congresswoman has called on the Obama administration not to
allow the entrance of people from West Africa due to the Ebola outbreak.
"I do believe that we should cease to allow people who have been in the
three countries in West Africa, we should not allow them to come into the
country until things settle down," Rep. Cynthia Lummis said during a debate
on Monday.
She made the comments after the identity of a female nurse who is the first
known person to contract the Ebola virus in the United States has been
confirmed.
The family of 26-year-old Nina Pham, a nurse at the Texas Health
Presbyterian Hospital in Dallas, provided the information to news sources on
Monday.
Pham contracted the virus after treating Liberian patient Thomas Eric
Duncan, who succumbed to the virus last week in Dallas.
Duncan had contracted the disease in Liberia a month ago and was the first
person to be diagnosed with Ebola in the US.
On Monday, President Barack Obama met with senior aides about the deadly
virus.
"The president was briefed on the status of the investigation into the
apparent breach in infection control protocols at the Dallas hospital and
remedial actions underway to mitigate similar breaches in the future,"
according to a White House statement.
Last week, the United States started conducing enhanced screening of West
African passengers at New York's John F. Kennedy International Airport to
halt the spread of Ebola.
The airport is the first of five US airports that is screening passengers
coming from the West African countries, including Guinea, Liberia and Sierra
Leone.
The US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) cited the airport
screening as one part of an overall strategy to contain the spread of Ebola.
On Friday, the World Health Organization announced that more than 4,000
people have died of the Ebola virus.
There is currently no known cure for Ebola, which is a form of hemorrhagic
fever with diarrhea, vomiting and bleeding as its symptoms.
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