Congressman: More Ebola cases “only a plane flight away from our shores”

Saturday, October 11, 2014
By Paul Martin

By Anna M. Tinsley
Star-Telegram.com
Friday, Oct. 10, 2014

D/FW AIRPORT — The Ebola virus death toll has surpassed 4,000, including one in Dallas, and congressional leaders demanded Friday for more to be done to make sure the deadly disease doesn’t spread in America.

They asked health officials for answers to questions they are hearing, such as why flights aren’t being stopped to and from West African countries and what is being done to protect U.S. troops dispatched to West Africa to help.

“The crisis is unfolding at an alarming pace,” U.S. Rep. Michael McCaul, R-Austin, said during a specially-called congressional hearing at the Dallas/Fort Worth International Airport. “Thousands have died in Africa and thousands more have been infected.

“Now the virus has begun to spread to other parts of the world and the American people are rightfully concerned,” said McCaul, who heads the committee. “They are concerned because the Ebola virus is an unseen threat and it is only a plane flight away from our shores.”

The goal of the meeting was to examine the coordinated federal, state and local response in the wake of the one Ebola case in Texas.

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