Isn't it true there are still a lot of questions about how Ebola is spread?

It is Code Red. We have had two instances of infection here in the United States, but this is such a highly contagious disease that we are on full alert, correct?

I find that to be a reckless decision with 12 percent at CDC. I think that is definitely the wrong direction.

There has been some lessons learned from what happened in Dallas.

I agree with President Obama and all of you. We have to be as aggressive as possible in preventing any transmission of the disease within the United States and boosting containment in West Africa.

We will only save lives if we can robustly fund medical research in America and keep America as the world leader.

Because Ebola is highly contagious when the patient is symptomatic, the protective gear has to shield them from any contact with bodily fluids.

You don't really know how Ms. Pham was -- well either one of these wonderful nurses were exposed.

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This is a humanitarian crisis, and we have a moral imperative to help in West Africa.

Ebola has an incubation period of about 21 days and is not contagious until the person with the virus begins to be symptomatic beginning often with a fever, correct?

Now, the CDC has developed guidance for hospitals to follow if patients present with symptoms consistent with Ebola...

Thank you, Mr. Chairman.

On September 25th, almost 2 months after the first advisory received by the hospital, Thomas Eric Duncan showed up at Texas Presbyterian with a fever that spiked up to 103 and he told the personnel that he had come from Liberia.

Now, your August 22nd protocols say people who are being monitored should not travel by commercial conveyances, don't they?

Ebola is transmitted through contact with a patient's bodily fluids including vomit, blood, feces, and saliva, and the virus concentrates more heavily as the patient becomes sicker...

I would certainly hope that here going forward if a patient shows up saying he is from Africa and he is vomiting and he has diarrhea, that you wouldn't say, 'Well, we don't have the lab results in yet,' you would start treating that person…

It looks like the first nurse, Ms. Pham, was exposed in the first couple of days before the diagnosis came in?