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Two Americans Have Now Been Diagnosed With Ebola in Record Outbreak

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Seven hundred are dead in West Africa, victims of an ‘out-of-control’ outbreak—and now two American health-care workers there have contracted the disease, says a colleague.

Kent Sepkowitz

Published Jul. 28 2014 5:45AM EDT

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At least two Americans are now infected with the Ebola virus, part of an “out of control” outbreak that the World Health Organization is calling the worst on record.

Late last week Dr.

Kent Sepkowitz

Kent Sepkowitz

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