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Home News Sports Health Best Of Events Heard On Traffic Weather Directory Travel Deals Auto Circulars FOLLOW US CBS Atlanta (con't) Affordable Care Act Updates: CBSAtlanta.net/ACA Health News & Information: CBSAtlanta.net/Health GET BREAKING NEWS FIRST Receive News, Politics, and Entertainment Headlines Each Morning. Sign Up News CDC Issues Highest Alert Response Over Ebola Outbreak August 7, 2014 11:05 AM In this handout from the Center for Disease Control (CDC), a colorized transmission electron micrograph (TEM) of a Ebola virus virion is seen. (credit: Center for Disease Control (CDC) via Getty Images) Related Tags: CDC, Dr. Tom Frieden, Ebola, President Barack Obama, West Africa, World Health Organization ATLANTA (CBS Atlanta/AP) — The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has issued its highest alert activation over the Ebola outbreak. CDC Director Dr. Tom Frieden announced on Twitter Wednesday that their operations center has moved to a Level 1 response. “@CDCEmergency Ops Center moved to Level 1 response to Ebola outbreak given the extension to Nigeria & potential to affect many lives,” Frieden tweeted. .@CDCEmergency Ops Center moved to Level 1 response to #EbolaOutbreak given the extension to Nigeria & potential to affect many lives. Dr. Tom Frieden (@DrFriedenCDC) August 06, 2014 The CDC previously issued Level 1 responses in 2009 for the bird flu outbreak and the Hurricane Katrina aftermath in 2005. SEND US YOUR PHOTOS S e a r 72° B u y T i c k e t s Y o u r H o m e M o r e Sign Up for Newsletters Latest News CBS Top Headlines Politics CBS MoneyWatch CNET Tech Business Entertainment Health National Galleries View Comments

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The CDC added: “The spread of Ebola in West Africa so far shows us how difficult this outbreak will be to control – but we can control it.” More than 930 people have died during the Ebola outbreak, while there have been more than 1,700 suspected and confirmed cases. During Wednesday’s U.S.-Africa Summit, President Barack Obama stated that the deadly disease can be controlled. “What we do know is that the Ebola virus, both currently and in the past, is controllable if you have a strong public health infrastructure in place,” Obama said...

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CDC Issues Highest Alert Response OverEbola OutbreakAugust 7, 2014 11:05 AM

In this handout from the Center for Disease Control (CDC), a colorized transmission electron micrograph (TEM) of a Ebola virus

virion is seen. (credit: Center for Disease Control (CDC) via Getty Images)

Related Tags: CDC, Dr. Tom Frieden, Ebola, President Barack Obama, West Africa, World Health Organization

ATLANTA (CBS Atlanta/AP) — The Centers forDisease Control and Prevention has issued its highestalert activation over the Ebola outbreak.

CDC Director Dr. Tom Frieden announced on TwitterWednesday that their operations center has moved toa Level 1 response.

“@CDCEmergency Ops Center moved to Level 1response to Ebola outbreak given the extension toNigeria & potential to affect many lives,” Friedentweeted.

.@CDCEmergency Ops Center moved to Level 1response to #EbolaOutbreak given the extensionto Nigeria & potential to affect many lives.

— Dr. Tom Frieden (@DrFriedenCDC) August 06,2014

The CDC previously issued Level 1 responses in 2009for the bird flu outbreak and the Hurricane Katrinaaftermath in 2005.

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“As Ebola outbreak escalates in West Africa, CDC is doing all that we can to cointain it andprevent further spread,” the agency tweeted.

As #Ebola outbreak escalates in West Africa, CDC is doing all that we can to contain itand prevent further spread.

— CDC (@CDCgov) August 06, 2014

The CDC added: “The spread of Ebola in West Africa so far shows us how difficult this outbreakwill be to control – but we can control it.”

The spread of #Ebola in West Africa so far shows us how difficult this outbreak will be tocontrol—but we can control it.

— CDC (@CDCgov) August 06, 2014

More than 930 people have died during the Ebola outbreak, while there have been more than1,700 suspected and confirmed cases.

During Wednesday’s U.S.-Africa Summit, President Barack Obama stated that the deadly diseasecan be controlled.

“What we do know is that the Ebola virus, both currently and in the past, is controllable if you havea strong public health infrastructure in place,” Obama said.

Obama continued: “The countries that have been affected are the first to admit that what’shappened here is that their public health systems have been overwhelmed. They weren’t able toidentify and then isolate cases quickly enough. You did not have a strong trust relationshipbetween some of the communities that were affected and public health workers. As aconsequence, it spread more rapidly than has been typical with the periodic Ebola outbreaks thathave occurred previously.”

Nigerian health authorities acknowledged Tuesday that they did not immediately quarantine a sickairline passenger who later died of Ebola, announcing that eight health workers who had directcontact with him were now in isolation with symptoms of the disease.

The outbreak, which emerged in March, spread to Nigeria in late July when Patrick Sawyer, a 40-year-old American of Liberian descent, flew from Liberia’s capital to the megacity of Lagos. Theannouncement that Sawyer was not immediately quarantined underscores concerns that WestAfrica is ill-equipped to contain such a disease.

Initially authorities told reporters that the risk of any exposure to others was minimal becauseSawyer was whisked into isolation after arriving at the airport with symptoms of Ebola.

But Lagos state health commissioner Jide Idris said Tuesday that the nature of his disease “wasnot known” the first day, and only after further investigation did they suspect Ebola. Sawyer’s sisterhad died in Liberia from the disease, which has no proven cure or treatment.

“They went back to the history and they were like ‘Oh, this is Liberia,’ and that’s why he was putinto isolation,” he told reporters. “So even in that window period it was possible that some of thesepeople got infected.”

A doctor who cared for Sawyer has tested positive for the disease, and seven other health workersare now showing symptoms and have been placed in isolation. They are among 14 people whohad “serious direct contact” with Sawyer, most of them at the hospital, Idris said. Authorities saythey are also following the conditions of 56 other people who had “primary contact” with Sawyer —presumably less at risk than those in the first group.

The New York Times reports that the World Health Organization may decide by Friday whether todeclare an international public health emergency.

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