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U.S. President Barack Obama said on Thursday that there was still a "significant gap" in the international response to the deadly Ebola outbreak in West Africa.
"Stopping Ebola is a priority for the United States," he told a meeting on Ebola on the sidelines of the U.N. General Assembly in New York. "We'll do our part. We'll continue to lead, but this has to be a priority for everybody else."
The outbreak began in a remote corner of Guinea and has taken hold of much of neighboring Liberia and Sierra Leone, killing nearly 3,000 people in just over six months. Senegal and Nigeria have recorded cases but, for now, contained them.
"If ever there were a public health emergency deserving an urgent, strong and coordinated international response, this is it," Obama said. "We know from experience that the response to an outbreak of this magnitude has to be fast and has to be sustained. It's a marathon, but you have to run it like a sprin
