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Fear of Ebola spreads faster than the virus itself.

Hello again, I'm Orwin-Aulny, and this is To the Point from Public Radio International.

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The first person to contract Ebola in the United States is a nurse who treated Thomas Duncan,

the man who died of Ebola in Dallas after catching it in Liberia.

Other health care workers who treated Duncan might be at risk so they and people they've contacted

are being monitored. We'll hear about the risks in this country and how Ebola spread

in Liberia, Guinea, and Sierra Leone. Despite alarms being sounded by some politicians, the bottom line

is the way to keep America safe is to stop the disease in West Africa. Today's talking point,

championship football players accused of sexually assaulting members of their own team. First, here's the news.

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Hello again, Warren Alney, back with To the Point.

A nurse who treated an Ebola patient from Liberia

is the first person to contract the disease in the United States.

That has changed the strategy for coping with the disease in this country.

Here's Tom Frieden, director of the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention,

talking to reporters this morning.

The existence of the first case of Ebola spread within the U.S. changes some things,

and it doesn't change other things. It doesn't change the fact that we know how Ebola spreads.

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