Obama names Ebola 'czar' as West Africa death toll rises<p><a href="http://news.yahoo.com/texas-health-worker-isolated-cruise-ship-deemed-low-125440553.html"><img src="http://l.yimg.com/bt/api/res/1.2/3SCx.YKdh88f5T4kwvflrw--/YXBwaWQ9eW5ld3M7Zmk9ZmlsbDtoPTg2O3E9NzU7dz0xMzA-/http://media.zenfs.com/en_us/News/Reuters/2014-10-17T212747Z_3_LYNXNPEA9G0RK_RTROPTP_2_USA-OBAMA.JPG" width="130" height="86" alt="Obama pauses as he talks next to U.S. Secretary of HHS Burwell and Director of the CDC Frieden after meeting with his team coordinating the government's Ebola response in the Oval Office of the White House in Washington" align="left" title="Obama pauses as he talks next to U.S. Secretary of HHS Burwell and Director of the CDC Frieden after meeting with his team coordinating the government's Ebola response in the Oval Office of the White House in Washington" border="0" /></a>By Jeff Mason WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Barack Obama appointed a former White House adviser as U.S. Ebola "czar" on Friday as the global death toll from the disease that has ravaged three West African countries rose to more than 4,500. Amid growing concerns about the spread of the virus in the United States, authorities said a Texas health worker, who was not ill but may have had contact with specimens from an Ebola patient, was quarantined on a cruise ship that departed last Sunday from the port of Galveston, Texas. ...</p><br clear="all"/>
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