CDC: Ebola Spread in U.S. ‘Doesn’t Change the Fact that We Know How Ebola Spreads’

"Good afternoon, everyone, and thank you very much for joining us. Stopping Ebola is hard. We’re working together to make it safer and easier. Yesterday, we confirmed the first case of Ebola contracted in the United States in a health care worker who cared for what we refer to -- who we refer to as the index patient in Dallas, Texas.

Our thoughts are with this health care worker. She is now being cared for and we understand that she is clinically stable. Please refer any questions on her care to the hospital where she is being cared for, so that only information that she and her family want released is released.

The existence of the first case of Ebola spread within the U.S. changes some things and it doesn’t change other things. It doesn’t change the fact that we know how Ebola spreads. It doesn’t change the fact that it’s possible to take care of Ebola safely, but it does change substantially how we approach it."