house candidate for new york's first congressional district lee zeldin. today, i want to take a few minutes to speak with you directly and clearly about ebola. what we are doing about it and what you need to know because meeting a public health challenge like this is not just a job for government. all of us, citizens, leaders, the media have a responsibility and a role to play. this is a serious disease, but we cannot give in to the hysteria or fear because that only makes it harder to get people the accurate information they need. we have to be got it by the science. we have to remember the basic facts. what we are seeing now is not an outbreak or epidemic of ebola and america. -- in america. we are a nation of more than 300 million people. we have only seen three cases of ebola here. the man who contracted ebola in liberia came here and sadly died. and the nurses that were infected when they were treating him. we are doing everything we can to give them the best care possible. even one infection is too many but at the same time we have to keep this into