Washington (AFP) - As President Barack Obama on Saturday urged against "hysteria or fear" over Ebola, US media had reports of communities taking seemingly overzealous measures against the disease.
A teacher from Maine was placed on three-weeks paid leave because she'd traveled to Texas for a conference -- where she'd stayed in a hotel 10 miles (16 kilometers) from the hospital in which the first case of the virus was diagnosed in the United States.
A Pulitzer-prize-winning photographer was uninvited from speaking at a journalism school, because he'd gone to Ebola hotspot Liberia, even though he'd been back 21 days and was showing no symptoms.
And a group of Mississippi parents pulled their kids from school because the principal recently traveled to Africa -- though he'd been to a completely different part of the continent from where the Ebola epidemic is wreaking havoc.
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A teacher from Maine was placed on three-weeks paid leave because she'd traveled to Texas for a conference -- where she'd stayed in a hotel 10 miles (16 kilometers) from the hospital in which the first case of the virus was diagnosed in the United States.
A Pulitzer-prize-winning photographer was uninvited from speaking at a journalism school, because he'd gone to Ebola hotspot Liberia, even though he'd been back 21 days and was showing no symptoms.
And a group of Mississippi parents pulled their kids from school because the principal recently traveled to Africa -- though he'd been to a completely different part of the continent from where the Ebola epidemic is wreaking havoc.
Read the rest here...
http://yhoo.it/ZKiE2V
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