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Live Airport Tweets: An NPR Producer's Irregular Ebola Screenings

by Rebecca Hersher

The sign NPR producer Rebecca Hersher saw as she left Liberia to return to the United States.
The sign NPR producer Rebecca Hersher saw as she left Liberia to return to the United States. Rebecca Hersher / For NPR

NPR producer Rebecca Hersher has reported on Ebola from Liberia for the past two weeks. She just returned to the U.S. via Brussels and into Washington Dulles International Airport — the same route flown by Thomas Eric Duncan, the Liberian national who went on to Dallas, where he was diagnosed with the virus and later died. As Hersher's tweets reveal, she was screened. Sort of.

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