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Risk reported low, but Bulloch County officials plan for Ebola
Doctor: Georgia Southern West African students safely past incubation time
APTOPIX US Ebola Werm
Ashoka Mukpo is loaded into an ambulance Monday after arriving in Omaha, Neb. Mukpo, an American video journalist who contracted Ebola while working in Liberia, was taken to Nebraska Medical Center, where he will be treated for the deadly disease. - photo by Associated Press
Doctors from East Georgia Regional Medical Center and Georgia Southern University as well as emergency response officials from Bulloch County, Statesboro and state agencies met Monday at the hospital to show a united front in dealing with the possibility of an Ebola outbreak. The case of a man being treated in a Texas hospital after returning from Liberia remained the only known instance of the viral disease developing in someone already in the United States. So officials such as hospital CEO Bob Bigley referred to the threat as "very low" in southeast Georgia.
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