CDC Launches Ebola Response Team

10-14-2014 | Katherine Harmon Courage, Freelance Contributor

In the two days since the second U.S. Ebola patient was diagnosed, the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) has assembled a new team to battle the threat of Ebola. This team has no steady lineup, but it will be deployed anywhere in the country that sees a new case of Ebola, CDC Director Thomas Frieden said in a press conference Tuesday afternoon.

“For any hospital, anywhere in the country that has a confirmed case of Ebola, we will put a team on the ground within hours,” Frieden said. “I wish we had put a team like this on the ground the day the first patient was diagnosed,” he conceded.