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It's Thursday, September 18th. I'm Dorothy Wickendon, executive editor of The New Yorker writers and editors about politics. It's Thursday, September 18th. I'm

Dorothy Wickenden, executive editor of the New Yorker. Ebola is now an epidemic of the

likes that we have not seen before. At the Centers for Disease Control in Atlanta this week,

President Obama announced a U.S.-led response to Ebola, which he said is spiraling out of control in West Africa.

If the outbreak is not stopped now, we could be looking at hundreds of thousands of people infected

with profound political and economic and security implications for all of us.

Dr. Jerome Groupman and Michael Specter are talking with me today about the politics of the

epidemic. Michael, I just read a piece that you've written for the New Yorkers website today,

and you talk about how self-interest and fear are playing into the political discussion of

Ebola. Talk about that a little bit. Look, I think it's great that we're sending a lot of

money to Africa,

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