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All of us, citizens, leaders, the media, have a responsibility and a role to play. It's a serious disease. But we can't give in to hysteria or fear because that only makes it harder to get people the accurate information they need. We have to be guided by the science. We have to remember the basic facts. First, what we're seeing now is not an outbreak or an epidemic of Ebola in America. We're a nation of more than three hundred million people. To date, we've seen three cases of Ebola diagnosed here. The man who contracted the disease in Liberia. Came here, and sadly, died. The two courageous nurses who were infected while they were treating him. Our thoughts and prayers are with them. And we're doing everything we can to give them the best care possible. Now, even one infection is too many. At the same time, we have to keep this in perspective. As our public health experts point out every year thousand of Americans die from the flu. Second, Ebola is actually a difficult disease to catch. It's not transmitted through the air like the flu. You can not get it from just riding on a plane or a bus. The only way that a person can contract the disease is by coming into direct contact with the bodily fluids of somebody is already showing symptoms. I've met and hugged some of the doctors and nurses who've treated Ebola patients. I met with an Ebola patient who recovered, right in the Oval Office, and I'm fine. Third we know how to fight this disease. We know the protocols. And we know that when there followed they work. So far five Americans who got infected with Ebola in West Africa, had been brought back to the United States. And all five have been treated safely. Without infecting healthcare workers. And this week, at my direction, we're stepping up all of our efforts. Additional CDC personal are on the scene in Dallas and Cleveland. We're working quickly to track and monitor anyone who may have been in close contact with someone showing symptoms. We're sharing lessons learned. So other hospitals don't repeat the mistakes that happened in Dallas. The CDC's new Ebola rapid response teams which will deploy quickly to help hospitals implement the right protocols. New screening measures are now in place in airports that receive nearly all passengers arriving from Liberia, Guinea, and Sierre Leone. And we'll continue to constantly review our measures and update them as needed to make sure we're doing everything we can to keep Americans safe. Finally, we can't just cut ourselves off from West Africa where this disease is raging. Our medical experts tell us that the best way to stop this disease is to stop it at its source. Before it spreads even wider and becomes even more difficult to contain. Trying to seal off an entire region of the world, if that were even possible, could actually make the situation worse. It would make it harder to move healthcare workers and supplies back and forth. Experience shows it could also cause people in the affected region to change their travel. To evade screening and make the disease even harder to track. So the United States will continue to help lead the global response in West Africa because if we want to protect Americans from Ebola here at home we have to end it over there. And as our civilian and military personnel serve in the region. There safety and health will remain a top priority. As I've said before fighting this disease will take time. Before this was over we may see more isolated cases here in America. But we know how to wage this fight. And if we take the steps that are necessary, if we're guide by the science, the facts not fear. 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