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A health worker checks the temperature of a man at a roadside medical checkpoint outside Ganta, Liberia.

How Liberians confronting Ebola manage to keep calm while Americans panic

Health

New York Times Pentagon correspondent Helene Cooper was born in Liberia. She admits when she recently returned to West Africa to report on Ebola, she was scared. But Cooper says she found Liberians confronting the outbreak with an impressive calm.

An ambulance enters the emergency area at the Alcorcón hospital outside Madrid. The Spanish nurse who contracted Ebola while treating infected patients is currently in isolation at the facility.

There’s a fine line between reporting about Ebola and spreading panic

Media
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