Tom Frieden, the head of the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) dropped a bombshell at a hearing of the House Subcommittee on Africa, Global Health, Global Human Rights and International Organizations on Thursday, stating that an Ebola spread to the US is "inevitable."
"It's the first time we're having to deal with it here in the United States and that's not merely because of the two people who became ill caring for Ebola patients and were brought back to the U.S. by their organization. That's primarily because we are all connected and inevitably there will be travelers, American citizens and others who go from these three countries -- or from Lagos if it doesn't get it under control -- and are here with symptoms," said Frieden.
Frieden also stated "It is certainly possible that we could have ill people in the US who develop Ebola after having been exposed elsewhere."
Frieden assured the members that any spread of Ebola in the US would not be a large scale outbreak, yet with African authorities already calling it it "out of control," in the infected countries there, that is a guarantee that Frieden simply cannot make credibly.
Ebola kills uo to 90 percent of those that become infected and is responsible for over 900 deaths and infected more than 1,700, during this latest outbreak, officially, yet authorities admit the death toll could be higher due to the nature of the virus and unreported cases.
The full hearing can be seen in the first video below, sound and the actual start of this hearing begins at the 19:37 minute mark.
