Ebola: How it spreads

Thursday, October 2, 2014 - 15:50 in Health & Medicine

While health officials are casting a wide net to find people who may have been around the Ebola patient now hospitalized in Dallas, they're also stressing that it takes close contact to really be at risk....

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