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KERA
Health Reporter at KERA in Dallas, Texas
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Lauren Silverman
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FROM Lauren Silverman
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Nurses Say Poor Conditions with Ebola Patients Put Them and Other Patients in Danger A second nurse is infected with the Ebola virus at Texas Presbyterian Hospital in Dallas, where Thomas Duncan, the patient who flew to the US from Liberia, was treated. The latest victim will be transferred to Emery University Hospital in Atlanta, where others have been successfully treated. Lauren Silverman is a health reporter for KERA, public radio in Dallas.
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