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  • Today, I want to take a few minutes to speak with you-directly and clearly-about Ebola:

  • what we're doing about it, and what you need to know. Because meeting a public health challenge

  • like this isn't just a job for government. All of us-citizens, leaders, the media-have

  • a responsibility and a role to play. This is 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 300 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 our

  • 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 thousands 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 cannot 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 who is already showing symptoms. I've met and hugged some of the doctors and

  • nurses who've treated Ebola patients. I've 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

  • they're followed, they work. So far, five Americans who got infected with Ebola in West

  • Africa have 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 our efforts. Additional CDC personnel 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 will deploy quickly to help hospitals implement the right protocols.

  • New screening measures are now in place at airports that receive nearly all passengers

  • arriving from Liberia, Guinea and Sierra 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 health workers and supplies back and

  • forth. Experience shows that 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, their safety and health

  • will remain a top priority.

  • As I've said before, fighting this disease will take time. Before this is 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 guided by the science-the facts, not fear-then

  • I am absolutely confident that we can prevent a serious outbreak here in the United States,

  • and we can continue to lead the world in this urgent effort.

Today, I want to take a few minutes to speak with you-directly and clearly-about Ebola:

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fear

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UK /fɪə(r)/

  • noun
  • Unpleasant feeling caused by being aware of danger
  • verb
  • To be afraid of or nervous about something
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  • A concern or worry.
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  • An unpleasant emotion caused by the perception of danger, pain, or threat.
  • A feeling of reverence and respect for someone or something.
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  • To be afraid of (someone or something) as likely to be dangerous, painful, or threatening.
track

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  • verb
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  • To follow the trail or movements of someone or something.
disease

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  • noun
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  • To affect with disease; to cause disease in.
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response

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  • noun
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  • A change in condition resulting from treatment.
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hard

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  • Strong
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  • adverb
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region

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contact

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  • adjective
  • Touching or feeling something
  • noun
  • Touching or feeling something
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  • Exposure to a disease.
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  • To communicate with someone.
  • To communicate with someone.
  • To touch something
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  • Communication or interaction.
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  • Communication or interaction.
  • The state or condition of physical touching.
  • verb
  • To get in touch with someone
show

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  • noun
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  • Play, opera or theater production
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guide

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  • verb
  • To help or advise someone about something
  • To control missile to hit a target by radio signal
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  • noun
  • Book or a magazine containing information/advice
  • A device or structure that directs or controls the movement of something.
  • A person who shows the way to others, especially one employed to show tourists around.
  • A book or pamphlet that gives information about a place.
  • Person leading others visiting an unknown place
  • other
  • To influence someone's behavior or thinking.
  • To show someone the way to a place.
public

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UK /'pʌblɪk/

  • adjective
  • Open to or shared by all people.
  • Of or concerning the people as a whole.
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  • Known to everyone.
  • Open to or shared by all people.
  • Owned by the government
  • Concerning society in general
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  • The views of the general population.
  • Work done for the benefit of the community.
  • noun
  • People in general.
  • A place accessible to all members of a community.