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Dr. Rena Jones On Ebola's Arrival In U.S.

Health officials in Texas say they have contacted 80 people who may have had direct or indirect contact with a man from Liberia who is now being treated in Dallas for Ebola. Thomas Eric Duncan came down with the symptoms  while visiting his family in Texas. So is Ebola a true health threat to the U.S., or are the media overreacting? For more, WAMC News spoke with Dr. Rena Jones, an epidemiologist and faculty member in the school of health sciences at Excelsior College.

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