"Here's the bottom line. Patients can beat this disease. And we can beat this disease. But we have to stay vigilant," Obama said in his weekly radio and web address today, a day after he hugged the Dallas-based Nina Pham, the nurse declared free of Ebola.
"We have to work together at every level-federal, state and local. And we have to keep leading the global response, because the best way to stop this disease, the best way to keep Americans safe, is to stop it at its source - in West Africa," he said ye.
He said new measures were put in place to screen all travellers from the three affected countries in West Africa into five US airports where provisions for additional screening were put in place.
"Starting this week, these travelers will be required to report their temperatures and any symptoms on a daily basis-for 21 days until we're confident they don't have Ebola," he said.
Obama said the White House and its new Ebola response coordinator were working to ensure a seamless response across the federal government.
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