October 16, 2014
Mariah Timms
News Writer
National
President Obama has repeated his calls to world leaders to act “aggressively” on Ebola in order to attempt to halt the spread of the virus, as he has also promised to do in the U.S. This commentary comes along with news of a nurse who treated the patient in Dallas before becoming infected herself, was allowed by the CDC to fly from Ohio back to Texas, even with an elevated temperature. Some politicians, including House Speaker John A Boehner (R-Ohio), have called for a ban on travellers from affected West African countries. Most U.S. patients are being transferred to Emory University Hospital in Atlanta, which has so far had success in containing and treating patients. Doctors at the Walter Reed Army Institute of Research in Silver Spring, Maryland, have begun clinical trials of a vaccine on 39 people so far.
