An Ebola resurgence in a West African region previously believed to have contained the virus has health officials worried the outbreak could be spinning out of control. President Barack Obama on Sunday called the fight against Ebola a “national security priority.”
Doctors Without Borders staff moved on from Guinea’s Macenta region in May, believing that the virus was under control in the area, according to The Associated Press. The international aid group had returned to Macenta by the beginning of September, after new cases cropped up for the first time in months.
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Obama said Sunday U.S. troops would soon be involved in setting up quarantine zones and providing security for health workers in Ebola-ravaged regions, citing Ebola as a “national security priority,” according to Fox News.
“Americans shouldn’t be concerned about the prospects of contagion here in the United States short term, because it’s not an airborne disease,” Obama said on NBC’s Meet The Press . “If we don’t make that effort now, there’s the prospect that the virus mutates … And then it could be a serious danger to the United States.”
