WASHINGTON, October 19 -- The US, for its part, has already deployed hundreds of soldiers as well as health care workers to help control the disease. Washington has pledged to send up to 4000 military personnel to the region by the end of October. Pentagon officials estimate Obama's plan to tackle Ebola could cost up to $750million for a six-month period, a figure that includes airlifting personnel, medical supplies, protective suits and temporary housing for Ebola victims. With three cases of Ebola diagnosed in the US and dozens being monitored for potential exposure, President Barack Obama urged Americans on Saturday not to give in to "hysteria" about the virus. "This is a serious disease, but we can't give in to hysteria or fear-because that only makes it harder to get people the accurate information they need,'' Obama said Obama has made it clear that he will not bow to demands from some lawmakers for a ban on flights from region. "We can't just cut ourselves off from West Africa," Obama said in his weekly radio address. "Trying to seal off an entire region of the world - if that were even possible - could actually make the situation worse," he said. British Prime Minister David Cameron said on Saturday European Union leaders should raise the amount of money pledged to fight Ebola to $1.3 bn and mobilise at least 2,000 workers to head to West Africa. The worst Ebola outbreak on record has killed more than 4,500 people, most of them in the West African countries of Liberia, Sierra Leone and Guinea.
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