WASHINGTON, October 29 (RIA Novosti) — Washington is not willing to bring the non-American Ebola-infected patients to the US and treat them inside the country, US State Department spokesperson Jen Psaki said on Wednesday during the daily press briefing.
“There are no plans to evacuate non-Americans, who got infected with Ebola, to the United States. We have discussed allowing other countries to use our ‘medevac’ capabilities to evacuate their own citizens to their home countries or third countries… but we are not contemplating bringing them to the United States for treatment,” Psaki said.
Psaki was commenting on the US State Department memo, which appeared in various western media sources, reportedly stating that the United States was ready to treat infected patients from abroad. Psaki said that the document had not been presented to the senior officials for approval.
The current Ebola epidemic, one of the current global security threats, started in southern Guinea in February and later spread to other West African countries, with several Ebola cases having been reported in Europe and in the United States.
There is currently no official vaccine for the disease that has claimed the lives of almost 5,000 people, according to the most recent WHO estimates.
