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    Press Play with Madeleine Brand

    Ebola 101

    One of the nurses who contracted Ebola at Texas Health Presbyterian Hospital in Dallas is being transferred to Emory University Hospital in Atlanta, where the two infected aid workers were treated. Health officials are now considering transferring all infected patients to hospitals with special expertise treating Ebola.

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    By Madeleine Brand • Oct 15, 2014 • 1 min read

    One of the nurses who contracted Ebola at Texas Health Presbyterian Hospital in Dallas is being transferred to Emory University Hospital in Atlanta, where the two infected aid workers were treated. Health officials are now considering transferring all infected patients to hospitals with special expertise treating Ebola. We talk about the challenges local hospitals have treating Ebola infections, and why the disease is hard to contain.

    The full episode

    1 of 5
    Ebola Treatment Challenges, and Bay Guardian Shutdown Reflects Cultural Change in San Francisco
    1. 0:00Ebola 101You’re reading this
    2. 9:07HBO Goes Streaming
    3. 14:02The Dubious Rise of Emotional Support Animals
    4. 24:33Underground Girls of Afghanistan
    5. 41:27Requiem for the San Francisco Bay Guardian
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      Madeleine Brand

      Host, 'Press Play'

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      Andrew Walsh

      Too Beautiful to Live

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      Christian Bordal

      Managing Producer, Greater LA

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      Matt Holzman

      Producer, 'The Document'

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      Peter Hotez

      Dean of the National School of Tropical Medicine at Baylor College of Medicine in Houston.

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    The full episode

    1 of 5
    Ebola Treatment Challenges, and Bay Guardian Shutdown Reflects Cultural Change in San Francisco
    1. 0:00Ebola 101You’re reading this
    2. 9:07HBO Goes Streaming
    3. 14:02The Dubious Rise of Emotional Support Animals
    4. 24:33Underground Girls of Afghanistan
    5. 41:27Requiem for the San Francisco Bay Guardian
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