The world must act fast to fight the global threat posed by Ebola, President Barack Obama warned on Tuesday as the US deployed 3,000 soldiers to west Africa to contain the outbreak.
“It’s spiralling out of control. It is getting worse. It’s spreading faster and exponentially,” Mr Obama said as health officials warned that the death toll could rise sharply. “We have to act fast.”
The chances of an Ebola outbreak in the US were extremely low, he said, but the disease would pose a threat to global security “if these [west African] countries break down, if their economies break down, if people panic”.
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