Ranking Members Waxman, Pallone, and DeGette Outline Key Questions on Ebola Outbreak

WASHINGTON, D.C. -- Today Energy and Commerce Committee Ranking Member Henry A. Waxman, Health Subcommittee Ranking Member Frank Pallone, Jr., and Oversight and Investigations Subcommittee Ranking Member Diana DeGette sent a letter to Chairmen Fred Upton, Joe Pitts, and Tim Murphy outlining the key-short term and long-term questions that should be addressed in hearings on Ebola.   Last month, these members urged Committee leaders to hold a hearing on the Ebola crisis.

The members wrote that the emergence of the first case of Ebola diagnosed in the U.S. “should not be a cause for panic, “but “should serve as a wake-up call regarding the need to address the ongoing public health disaster in Africa and to ensure that the domestic public health system is adequately prepared for Ebola cases or for other emerging public health issues.”

The full text of the letter is available online here.