Ebola is a devastating disease which warrants no delay in treatment. Mr. Duncan's death is a tragedy. @newsnation @tamronhall
— Sheila Jackson Lee (@JacksonLeeTX18) October 8, 2014
After Thomas Eric Duncan's death was announced yesterday, TX Rep. Sheila Jackson Lee quickly released a statement:The death of Thomas Eric Duncan indicates the deadly aspects of this Ebola virus. The fact that we do not know all of the facts of Ebola reaffirms the commitment we must show to those Mr. Duncan was exposed too. Any delay of the treatment of someone suspected of having Ebola cannot be tolerated.Grammatical issues aside, Sheila is sounding the alarm bells loudly about the dangers of this deadly disease:
“Lives are at stake. We must make sure our health care system is up to the task of handling this disease. Ebola is now an epidemic that has reached the shores of the United States and is an epidemic of the likes that we have not seen before. It is spiraling out of control in Africa and we must make sure that does not happen here in the United States. Today, thousands of people in West Africa are infected. That number could rapidly grow to tens of thousands. And if the outbreak is not stopped now, we could be looking at hundreds of thousands of people infected, with profound political and economic and security implications for all of us. So this is an epidemic that is not just a threat to regional security – it is a potential threat to global security if these countries break down, if their economies break down, if people panic. That has profound effects on all of us, even if we are not directly contracting the disease.”
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