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Ebola patient Nancy Writebol is wheeled into Emory University Hospital on Aug. 5.

Credit: John Spink

Credit: John Spink

Ebola patient Nancy Writebol is wheeled into Emory University Hospital on Aug. 5.
By Tom Sabulis
Aug 21, 2014

Even with Ebola patients leaving Emory University Hospital this week, the threat of the virus spreading remains real in vulnerable communities. Today, two global health experts to write about the larger implications of Ebola and other infectious diseases on world populations. Emory doctors urge education as an antidote to fear in the general population, and a doctor at Duke University warns against the rush to use experimental or unproven drugs to fight back.

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