DHAKA: The United States needs to do more to help control West Africa’s deadly Ebola outbreak to stop it becoming a global crisis that could one day threaten Americans.

US president Barack Obama said in an interview.

Obama told NBC’s ‘Meet the Press’ that the outbreak, which has killed 2,100 people in African five countries, was unlikely to spread to the United States in the short term.

But he added there could be implications if Washington and other powers did not send urgently needed equipment, public health workers and other supplies to the region.

‘If we don't make that effort now, and this spreads not just through Africa but other parts of the world, there’s the prospect then that the virus mutates. It becomes more easily transmittable,’ he said in the interview broadcast on Sunday.

BDST: 2026 HRS, SEP 07, 2014