Ebola cases hit 3,000

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The number of people infected with Ebola has now hit 3,000 in an outbreak centering around the Democratic Republic of the Congo. Host Carol Hills sits down with Nahid Bhadelia, an Ebola specialist at Boston Medical Center, to discuss how it got to this point and what can be done. Bhadelia has been training health workers at the DRC border in Uganda. 

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