Jen Psaki the U.S State Department
Spokeswoman has told reporters that they (U.S) will be taking a ‘wait and see’
approach on the Ebola Virus breakout. While three West African nations enforce
the suspension of flights from Liberia, and Sierra Leone.
The State Department is the agency that would
suspend, or place, international flight restrictions in the event a major
Trans-Atlantic outbreak of the Ebola virus under U.S. Law. Jen Psaki said that
the State Department would first follow the lead, and recommendations of the
Atlanta-based Center for Disease Control to place flight restrictions.
Psaki said that U.S. officials are closely
monitoring the on-going outbreak of Ebola in the five West African countries
where the illness has surfaced. She said that as officials manage support to
the countries afflicted with Ebola, the U.S. was not ready to issue travel bans
to American citizens visiting the West African Nations.
According to FOX News, a second American aid
worker has tested positive for the Ebola virus. Health officials have identified
Nancy Writebol as the second known American to contract the disease. Writebol
is a worker with an allied aid group called SIM (Serving In Mission).
Writebol was diagnosed with Ebola at the same hospital in Liberia where an American doctor became infected while helping to combat an outbreak of the deadly disease.
Ken Isaacs, a vice president of Samaritan's
Purse, told The Associated Press that the first American reported to contract
the deadly virus (Dr. Kent Brantly), was stable but in a very serious
condition.
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