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    Press Play with Madeleine Brand

    Ebola’s Breakdown

    Today, health officials in Texas identified the 10 people most at risk of contracting Ebola from an infected African man in a Dallas hospital. The man, Thomas Duncan, wasn’t diagnosed until several days after he started showing symptoms -- even though he’d visited an emergency room and told a nurse there he’d been in West Africa.

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    By Madeleine Brand • Oct 3, 2014 • 1 min read

    Today, health officials in Texas identified the 10 people most at risk of contracting Ebola from an infected African man in a Dallas hospital. The man, Thomas Duncan, wasn’t diagnosed until several days after he started showing symptoms -- even though he’d visited an emergency room and told a nurse there he’d been in West Africa. We look at the communication breakdown at the Texas hospital.

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    Force Feeding at Guantanamo and the Politics of History
    1. 0:00Guantanamo Bay Force Feeding Trial
    2. 14:35The Politics of History
    3. 26:29Mysteries, Technology, and the Rapture
    4. 42:49Ebola’s BreakdownYou’re reading this
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