Ask Well: Ebola Testing For All New Arrivals?

By DONALD G. MCNEIL JR., NY Times: Health
Sat, 10/25/2014 - 7:49pm

Readers ask: Why isn’t everyone who arrives from West Africa immediately tested for Ebola? Why don’t we look at their blood under a microscope?

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