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Ebola, public health, and public relations.

Hello again, I'm Armin Alney, and this is To the Point from Public Radio International.

The daily look at the issues, Americans care about most.

10,000 people have died of Ebola in West Africa, but experience in this country shows the virus is not a death sentence after all. Nevertheless, eight states have gone beyond federal

guidelines to establish mandatory quarantines for those who've treated patients with the disease.

The president says that might discourage health care workers from going to West Africa

while there's still time to prevent a worldwide epidemic.

Are the governors taking prudent precautions or playing politics with public health?

Today's talking point for the first time in 20 years, a white president of an African nation.

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Amid reports of mass casualties in West Africa from Ebola, the death of a patient in Dallas,

caused widespread alarm in the U.S.

Since then, all seven other infected patients in this country have recovered.

But the president and several state governors disagree about what that should mean

for health care workers back from Guinea, Sierra Leone, and Liberia. Today's talking point with the

death of Zambia's president Michael Sata, Vice President Guy Scott, a white man, has become the interim

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