http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2789464/surgeon-general-missing-action-ebola-patient-america-dies.htmlJust who is leading America's fight against Ebola? Surgeon General 'missing in action' after first Ebola patient in America died
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By Francesca Chambers
Published: 16:05 EST, 11 October 2014 | Updated: 18:12 EST, 11 October 2014
When the Ebola began to savage thousands West Africans, it was Centers for Disease Control and Prevention head, Dr. Thomas Frieden, who promised Americans that a similar 'widespread outbreak' would not occur in the U.S.
After the first Ebola patient was diagnosed in the U.S., it was Frieden who took to national television to assert that nation's top doctors 'know how to stop Ebola spreading in hospitals.'
And when the man who brought Ebola to the U.S. died last Wednesday, Friden was the Obama administration official tasked with announcing that the U.S. government was 'stepping up protection for people coming into this country and for Americans related to travel.'
Frieden, not the 'Nation's Doctor,' has been at the forefront of the Ebola crisis throughout the last several months, leading some Americans to wonder why the surgeon general hasn't led the administration's efforts to stop the spread of the deadly disease in America.
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