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November 19, 2014

India, Cuba Report Ebola Cases in West Africa; Obama Urges Congress to Back Funding 
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India and Cuba have reported new cases of Ebola in citizens who were in
West Africa. A Cuban doctor will be treated in Geneva after contracting
the disease in Sierra Leone, where he was a member of Cuba's 165-member
medical team. Meanwhile, an Indian man is being held in isolation at
Delhi's airport after recovering from Ebola in Liberia. The Obama
administration has asked Congress to approve $6.2 billion in funding for
the international Ebola response. On Tuesday, President Obama urged
lawmakers to approve the request before the December recess.

President Obama: "Although we should feel optimistic about our capacity
to solve the Ebola crisis, we cannot be complacent simply because the
news attention on it has waned. We have to stay with it. And that's why
I'm calling Congress to make sure that it approves, before it leaves,
the emergency funding request that we put forward to respond to Ebola
both domestically and internationally."

 

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