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Obama Fails Ebola Test

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Dallas, Texas is Ebola Ground Zero here in the United States. While health officials struggle to keep up with the outbreak in West Africa, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention are monitoring upwards of 100 people in Texas, suspected with coming in close personal contact with a contagious Ebola patient. Thomas Eric Duncan was the first infected Ebola patient to slip past health officials from West Africa TO the United States. Four other Americans all flew home to the US, but only AFTER they were diagnosed. Duncan checked into a hospital days after arriving from Liberia, but when he went into the hospital with Ebola symptoms, they sent him home with antibiotics. Now, he's back in the hospital, fighting for his life. CDC Director Tom Frieden continues to say Ebola will not break out, and that it's not airborne. Frieden insists Ebola can only be transmitted through direct contact with bodily fluids. But in the case of another recently infected American, NBC TV camerama


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