Expert on Ebola Threat: US Officials in 'Denial,' 'Don't Want to Worry About It'

A top public health expert said U.S. officials are not prepared for a possible Ebola outbreak and do not even want to plan for contingencies.

Days after experts said an Ebola outbreak in the U.S. may be "inevitable," Dr. Jane Orient, the executive director of the Association of American Physicians and Surgeons, said, "there are just many things about this virus that we do not know and yet we are assuming that it is not going to affect us here."

"I don't think that we are prepared at all," she said on Breitbart News Sunday on Sirius XM Patriot channel 125. "You would hope that the public health authorities are on high alert and they are going to let you know immediately if something happens. But I just don't see that. The public health people that I've talked to just don't want to worry about it."

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