WATCH ABOVE: U.S. President Barack Obama honoured healthcare professionals who helped fight the Ebola outbreak Wednesday by calling them American heroes for having the courage to help while others did not.
WASHINGTON – U.S. President Barack Obama says the United States cannot hermetically seal itself off from the world in the fight against Ebola.
Obama says doctors and nurses from the United States who have volunteered to fight Ebola in West Africa are American heroes who must be treated with dignity and respect. He cautions against discouraging their work with restrictive measures that confine them upon their return.
Obama: “When disaster strikes, the world calls us”
Obama spoke Wednesday at the White House surrounded by health care workers who have volunteered or will volunteer to serve in Liberia, Sierra Leone or Guinea, where the disease has killed more than 5,000.
Obama says the U.S. medical system is better prepared to handle any cases of Ebola in the United States.
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