Obama plans to ask Congress for additional funds to combat Ebola:

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US President Barack Obama

Obama plans to ask Congress for additional funds to combat Ebola:
US President Barack Obama is preparing to ask Congress for additional funds to help with the fight against the Ebola virus, a new report says.

The report, published by Bloomberg on Saturday, said that the request could come as early as next week, but it did not show how much money the White House is planning to ask from Congress.

The report cited one official from Congress and one from the White House.

White House spokesman Josh Earnest, however, said on Friday that administration officials "have not made any decisions about whether additional resources are necessary."

"If we determine that they are we'll certainly be working closely with our partners in Congress to try to get them," Earnest told reporters in Washington.

"And I think that we have seen in the last several weeks an acknowledgement from Democrats and Republicans that this is a serious issue that is worthy of the attention of the federal government. So we anticipate that if that's necessary, that we'll have partners on Capitol Hill, but that determination has not been reached at this point," he added.

According to the World Health Organization (WHO), the Ebola outbreak has killed about 4,500 people, with the large majority of victims in West Africa -- Liberia, Sierra Leone and Guinea.

The US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) estimates that as many as 1.4 million people could be infected by the virus.

Only two Ebola cases have been diagnosed in the US, both in Texas, one of which has ended with the death of 42-year-old Thomas Eric Duncan – a Liberian national.

Nina Pham, a nurse at the Texas Health Presbyterian Hospital in Dallas, contracted the virus after treating Duncan. She is the first person to have contracted the deadly virus in the US.

However, a new poll shows nearly two-thirds of Americans are worried about the spread of the Ebola epidemic across the US.

According to the results published on Tuesday, 65 percent of the respondents voiced concerns over the epidemic.

Meanwhile, the United States has deployed hundreds of troops to Liberia to help fight spread of Ebola in the West African country.

The Pentagon says it is planning a 3,600-strong force to fight the Ebola epidemic in West Africa. At the moment, there are over 500 active-duty US troops in Liberia and Senegal on the mission.


Source: Press TV

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