Washington – Obama Meets With Ebola Recovered Doctor, Says Virus A Global Security Threat

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    President Barack Obama meets with Dr. Kent Brantly and his wife, Amber, during an Oval Office drop by, Sept. 16, 2014.  Dr. Brantly had contracted the Ebola virus while doing missionary aid work in Liberia. (Official White House Photo by Pete Souza) Washington – Dr. Kent Brantly, an American physician who survived Ebola he contracted while working in Liberia, met with President Barack Obama at the White House Tuesday. He is one of three aid workers with Ebola who have been treated at Emory.

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    Later, he told a packed Senate hearing, “We must move quickly and immediately to deliver the promises that have been made.”

    Obama declared Tuesday that the Ebola epidemic in West Africa could threaten security around the world.

    “If the outbreak is not stopped now, we could be looking at hundreds of thousands of people affected, with profound economic, political and security implications for all of us,” Obama said Tuesday after briefings in Atlanta with doctors and officials from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and Emory University.


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