Obama: Ebola Threat to 'Regional, Global Security'

Continuing White House efforts to combat the outbreak of Ebola in Africa, U.S. President Barack Obama warned a summit of world leaders in New York on Thursday that the disease is becoming "a growing threat to regional and global security." Addressing the special United Nations meeting on the outbreak, Obama called efforts to stop the virus from spreading "in the interests of the entire world." "In Liberia, Guinea and Sierra Leone, public health systems are near...

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