President Barack Obama called on the country to support health workers treating Ebola patients in West Africa, praising their "incredible heroism" as states have imposed mandatory quarantines for returning doctors.
"America, in the end is not defined by fear. That's not who we are. America is defined by possibility, and when we see a problem and we see a challenge, then we fix it," the president said Tuesday on the White House South Lawn before embarking on a trip to Milwaukee.
"We want to make sure that we understand that they are doing God's work over there, and they're doing that to keep us safe."
Obama earlier Tuesday had a conference call with the members of the USAID team that has been on the ground in West Africa since August. Ebola has killed nearly 5,000 people, mostly in the West African countries of Liberia, Sierra Leone and Guinea, in an outbreak that has overwhelmed local health care systems.
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