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| https://web.archive.org/web/20141017001227/http://www.vitter.senate.gov/newsroom/press/vitter-impose-immediate-travel-restrictions-fire-cdc-director | Vitter: Impose Immediate Travel Restrictions, Fire CDC Director | 2014-10-16 | 2014 | 2014-10 | Republican | House | LA | David Vitter | V000127 | web.archive.org | legacy | Vitter: Impose Immediate Travel Restrictions, Fire CDC Director Says the CDC’s response to Ebola has been “pathetic” Thursday, October 16, 2014 (Metairie, La.) – U.S. Sen. David Vitter (R-La.) is calling for the resignation of Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) Director Dr. Thomas Frieden and for travel restrictions. Vitter made the following comment. “The CDC Director's response to the spread of the Ebola virus has been nothing short of pathetic,” Vitter said. “President Obama needs to fire him, put someone strong and competent in charge, and impose travel restrictions into the U.S. – all immediately. That sort of quarantine action was an essential part of the eradication of the late 1970s Ebola outbreak in Africa.” Earlier today, Sen. Vitter testified at a Louisiana House of Representatives Homeland Security hearing in Baton Rouge, La., where he recommended that the Louisiana state representatives submit a flight restriction request to the CDC. In 1976, there was an Ebola virus outbreak in Kinshasa, Zaire (now the Democratic Republic of Congo [DRC]). When the virus began to spread in the region, the United States along with Zaire and other governments quarantined 275,000 people in the affected region and imposed travel restrictions. -30- | 1 | 2026-03-30T12:14:52Z | 2026-03-30T12:14:52Z |