Barack Obama: “Ebola is now an epidemic of the likes that we have not seen before.”

On the recordSeptember 15, 2014

Ebola is now an epidemic of the likes that we have not seen before.

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Democratic · Illinois

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Remarks on the Ebola Outbreak in West Africa at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in Atlanta

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