Washington, Muharram 25, 1436, Nov 18, 2014, SPA -- U.S. President Barack Obama said Tuesday that West Africa is “nowhere near out of the woods” on battling Ebola. Obama made the comment as he met with his Ebola response team at the White House. The meeting came a day after a surgeon who contracted Ebola in his native Sierra Leone died at a Nebraska hospital after being rushed to the United States for treatment. “As long as the outbreak continues to rage in the three countries in West Africa – Liberia, Sierra Leone, and Guinea – this is still going to be a danger, not just for America, but for the entire world,” Obama told reporters who were briefly allowed into the meeting. “We are nowhere near out the woods yet in West Africa.” The president said that it is important to “push forward” on efforts to safeguard the United States against Ebola. “We have to stay with it, and that’s why I’m calling on Congress to make sure that it approves, before it leaves (for the year), the ($6.2 billion) emergency funding request that we’ve put forward to respond to Ebola, both domestically and internationally,” Obama said. --SPA 22:37 LOCAL TIME 19:37 GMT www.spa.gov.sa/w