Ebola: Obama wants to "put pressure on the heads of State" so that they act
The United States raised a tone, Monday, October 6, about the international response to the epidemic of Ebola. Barack Obama, who attended a meeting on HIV in Washington, asserted that the attitude of his counterparts was 'poor '.
"Some countries are not mounted in power as soon as necessary", he said, adding that "some major countries [were] not enough", without mentioning names. "I will put pressure on the heads of State and Government around the world so they do everything they can to join us", said Barack Obama.
However, the Washington Post observed, Saturday, at the beginning of October a tiny part of the 3,000 soldiers promised by the White House, September 16, to combat the virus in West Africa had been deployed. Monday, Washington said that some 350 soldiers and 130 members of its medical staff had been sent and that he did not exclude to deploy up to 4,000 troops on the spot.
"EXTREMELY LOW" RISK IN THE UNITED STATES
The US president also spoke on the risk of spread of the epidemic in the United States, where a contagious man was hospitalized only a few days after his first symptoms of fever, in Dallas, Texas. "Given the measures put in place, the quality of our health care system and the nature of the Ebola virus, which is not easily transmitted the risks of an outbreak of Ebola in the United States are extremely low," the US president assured.
It has however not excluded new protocols for controlling the passengers from the countries most affected by the epidemic which has already killed more than 3,500. "We do not have a significant error", he stressed, calling for strict respect of procedures and stressing that Washington thought to ways to strengthen the screening of passengers at airports both initially in West Africa and the arrival in the United States.
'A ban on some travel is not considered currently', however said Josh Earnest, spokesman for the American Presidency, while this solution is totally forbidden by non-governmental organizations on the spot.