After first Ebola case, red flags emerge that U.S. unprepared for pandemic
Federal reports raise concerns US defenses stagnated, waning
By Kelly Riddell
The Washington Times
Tuesday, September 30, 2014
The confirmation Tuesday of the first Ebola case on U.S. soil emerges against a backdrop of increasing concern in America’s medical community that preparedness for a pandemic has stagnated or slipped in recent years because of tough economic times and increasing malaise since the 2001 anthrax threat.
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, America’s premier disease fighter, offered an air of confidence Tuesday in declaring that the first Ebola patient in Dallas was carefully contained.
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