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Hundreds of different airplanes throughout the United States. I want to talk more about the travel. Restrictions. Dr. Freeden how many nonu. S. Military flights commercial flights are going into the effected countries. I dont have the exact numbers. Does nebraska know how many are going into these areas. Mr. Wagner, uh you dont know. From the United States, into those areas. There are no direct flights from those three areas to the United States. And into the area. Into west africa. There are flights into west africa. How many. That i dont have offhand. Anybodien know how many. How many are coming into the United States. There are no commercial flights coming directly from those three areas. What about europe . Theres hundreds of flights from europe. From west africa to ....
Intelligence training, and ive worked in the control of diseases Communicable Diseases and others since 1990. Ebola spreads only by direct contact with a patient who is sick with the disease or has died from it, or with their body fluids. Ebola is not new, although it is new to the u. S. We know how to control ebola. Even in this period, even in largos, nigeria, we have been able to contain the outbreak. We do that by tried and true measures of finding the patients promptly, isolating them effectively, identifying their contacts, ensuring that if any contact becomes ill, they are rapidly identified, isolated, and their contacts are identified. But there are no shortcuts in the control of ebola. And it is not easy to control it. To protect the United States, we have to stop it at the source. There is a lot of fear of ebola. I will tell you, as the director of c. D. C. , ....
Important Public Health issue of want toa virus, and i thank the centers for Disease Control and the nih and medical professionals across the country, especially those at Emory University health care, with been proactive in containing and treating the virus. I agree with president obama and all of you, we have to be as aggressive as possible in preventing any transition of the disease within the United States , and boosting containment in west africa. But i also think we need to pause here. This is a wakeup call for nihica that we cannot allow funding to stagnate any longer. Earlier this year in the Budget Committee i offered an amendment to the republican budget to restore the cuts to nih. The budget cuts t ....
Providers in the u. S. To consider e. B. D. And the diagnosis of febral illance on the other fevers and persons who had recently traveled to infected countries. The c. D. C. Advisory was also sent to all directors of our Emergency Departments and signage was posted in the e. D. s. On august 1, texas health leaders, including all regional and Hospital Leaders and the e. D. Leaders across our system received an email directing that all hospitals have a hospital emergency policy in place to address how to care for patients with ebolalike symptoms. Systems. The email also drew attention to the fact that our Electronic Health record documentation in Emergency Departments included a question about travel has treat to be completed on every patient. Attac ....