From WNYC in New York, this is on the media.

Brooke Gladstone is out this week.

I'm Bob Garfield.

Over the past seven days, the Ebola epidemic has continued to rage in West Africa, where nearly 10,000 have

been infected. So naturally, in the United States, wall-to-wall coverage fixated on the United

States. No wonder, including patient number one, the late Thomas Eric Duncan, who arrived from

Liberia infected, two nurses whom he

infected, and the New York doctor just returned ill from Guinea.

The total of cases diagnosed in this country has skyrocketed to four.

And tonight, Ebola has come roaring back into the news.

All it took was a suspected case in the nation's largest

population center, New York City. Without a travel ban, travelers with undiagnosed cases of

Ebola can appear in our emergency rooms. The World Health Organization says it missed the writing on

the wall with Ebola. But now that the virus is hopping across the globe, is it too late to stop it?

My brother is a critical care doctor.

He would tell you right off the bat.

This thing is easier to get than you believe.

No, it isn't.

Which may explain why the cases of Ebola transmission in this country are confined to health

care workers who were in direct physical contact

with a dying patient exhibiting full-blown symptoms, as opposed to, say, anyone who may have

encountered the infected travelers on a plane or subway before they were symptomatic,

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