The hearing was being held as the United Nations World Health Organization announced from Geneva that this week the total number of confirmed cases worldwide is expected to exceed 9,000, with deaths surpassing 4,500, and the number of cases now doubling every four weeks. Dr. Anthony Fauci, the director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases of the National Institutes of Health, announced nurse Nina Phan in Dallas was scheduled to be transferred to the NIH in Washington, D.C., for treatment. In his opening statement, CDC Director Dr. Thomas Frieden continued to reassure the American people that the CDC knows how to contain the current Ebola outbreak in the United States...
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