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| http://sablan.house.gov/press-release/keeping-tabs-threat-ebola | Keeping tabs on the threat of Ebola | 2014-10-17 | 2014 | 2014-10 | Independent | Senate | MP | Gregorio Sablan | S001177 | sablan.house.gov | legacy | Keeping tabs on the threat of Ebola Oct 17, 2014 It is very concerning that a disease that has proven so lethal in West Africa has now spread in isolated cases to North America and Europe. I have asked staff in your congressional office in Washington to be present at briefings at the Capitol to be sure that federal preparations to respond to Ebola include the Northern Mariana Islands. We also contacted the Commonwealth Department of Public Health and learned that DPH has been in daily contact with the Centers for Disease Control in Hawai’i to be prepared. DPH says a space at the Commonwealth Health Center is being retrofitted as an isolation area, where a patient infected or showing symptoms could be treated. And DPH informed us of their activities and tells us that this week they conducted a “dry-run” exercise to practice exactly what will be done if a patient comes in who may be infected. The White House has also published information, explaining the nature of the disease and the federal response. We have seen unexpected diseases before, such as SARS, and the world survived. But we have to take the matter seriously, stay well informed, and be prepared. | 1 | 2026-03-30T12:14:52Z | 2026-03-30T12:14:52Z |