Obama meets officials on Ebola response

President Obama is meeting Monday afternoon with senior members of his administration for a briefing on U.S. efforts to combat Ebola after tests revealed a second case in Dallas.

The president was to be briefed on the nurse who contracted the deadly virus treating a Liberian man who had traveled to the U.S. and then began displaying symptoms of the disease.

Obama is also receiving an update on “broader efforts to ensure the preparedness of our national health infrastructure,” according to the White House.
The attendees at the meeting included Sylvia Burwell, the secretary of the Health and Human Services Department; Susan Rice, Obama's national security adviser, and Lisa Monaco, the assistant to the president for homeland security and counterterrorism. Tom Frieden, the director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), participated via telephone.

Frieden on Monday said a "relatively large" number of healthcare workers could be at risk for Ebola. Officials still do not know how the nurse in Dallas contracted the disease. She had been treating Thomas Eric Duncan, who died last week.

Obama was briefed on the case Sunday by Monaco, who is the White House’s point person for the interagency Ebola response.

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