US Ebola outbreak 'possible' but likely not large: CDC chief

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US Ebola outbreak 'possible' but likely not large: CDC chief

<p><a href="http://news.yahoo.com/ebolas-spread-us-inevitable-says-cdc-chief-205903838.html"><img src="http://l1.yimg.com/bt/api/res/1.2/0gy2GM_1IlpLJ8YHc2yqhw--/YXBwaWQ9eW5ld3M7Zmk9ZmlsbDtoPTg2O3E9NzU7dz0xMzA-/http://media.zenfs.com/en_us/News/afp.com/Part-WAS-Was8856460-1-1-0.jpg" width="130" height="86" alt="US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Director Tom Frieden testifies before the Africa, Global Health, Global Human Rights and International Organizations Subcommittee hearing in Washington, DC, on August 7, 2014" align="left" title="US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Director Tom Frieden testifies before the Africa, Global Health, Global Human Rights and International Organizations Subcommittee hearing in Washington, DC, on August 7, 2014" border="0" /></a>People with symptoms of Ebola will inevitably spread worldwide due to the nature of global airline travel, but any outbreak in the US is not likely to be large, health authorities say. Already one man with dual US-Liberian citizenship has died from Ebola, after becoming sick on a plane from Monrovia to Lagos and exposing as many as seven other people in Nigeria. More suspected cases of Ebola moving across borders via air travel are expected, as West Africa faces the largest outbreak of the hemorrhagic virus in history, said Tom Frieden, the head of the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. The virus spreads by close contact with bodily fluids and has killed 932 people and infected more than 1,700 since March in Sierra Leone, Guinea, Nigeria and Liberia.</p><br clear="all"/>

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