"Over the last few weeks, the world has stepped up its response, with the U.S. is well-prepared to contain and control the disease within our borders - and it has in the past. Four other patients have been treated at hospitals in Georgia and Nebraska," the Associated Press reports. As epidemiologist Tara Smith has written for Mic, the U.S. "The National Institutes of Health recently admitted an American doctor exposed to the virus while volunteering in Sierra Leone. Between reports that 3,300 people died in West Africa's Ebola outbreak, eerie photos of Sierra Leone's desperate attempt to control the virus and now news that nearly 100 people may have been exposed to the virus in the Dallas area, it's easy to understand why many Americans are so concerned. The Ebola virus is scary: It's a deadly disease that's been built up in the American imagination as an unseen, incurable killer that could bring the U.S.
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