Dallas Schools Screening Kids for Ebola Symptoms

October 9, 2014

After several students at five schools in the Dallas Independent School District in Dallas, Texas, reported that they had had contact with Thomas Eric Duncan, the first person in the U.S. diagnosed with the ebola virus, the school district has gone proactive and rolled out electronic scanners to screen kids for fever, one of the first symptoms of this deadly disease. Duncan died on…

Vicki Clinebell majored in journalism at the University of Colorado and headed to an advertising agency before beginning a long career in broadcasting, spanning production and copywriting to Sales and Management for an ABC affiliate station.

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