KERA News Special: 'Surviving Ebola'

Ebola caregivers
Nurse manager Jeanie Gaudette, right, helps Leah Kaul, a medical ICU nurse, into a second pair of gloves while practicing how to safely put on and take off the protective gear needed to treat an ebola patient Wednesday, Nov. 12, 2014 at the University of Minnesota Medical Center, West Bank.
Jennifer Simonson / MPR News

It's been one year since the infectious and deadly disease Ebola came to America. It had already killed thousands in Africa, and threatened millions more. Ebola touched Dallas, Atlanta, Bethesda, New York City and Omaha. Fear traveled faster, and far wider, than the disease itself. This hour, from public radio station KERA in Dallas, a news special called "Surviving Ebola." You'll hear first-hand stories, and the lessons learned.

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