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VIDEO: Ebola's U.S. threat low, but delivers infectious disease ‘wake-up call’


 

AT IDWEEK 2014

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PHILADELPHIA – Despite the relatively limited threat Ebola poses to the United States, the disease’s arrival here “is a great wake-up message for us,” noted infectious disease expert Bruce Ribner.

“We have to be sensitive to the fact that ... people travel to areas where there are serious communicable diseases that are endemic,” noted Dr. Ribner, medical director of Emory University Hospital’s serious communicable diseases unit in Atlanta.

In an interview at IDWeek 2014, Dr. Ribner assessed Ebola’s low threat to the U.S. population, the resources available to contain that threat, and screening tactics to help contain the risks of infectious diseases beyond Ebola.

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