Why is Ebola proving so hard to contain?

Season 2014

The international head of Doctors Without Borders has charged that the efforts to curtail the Ebola outbreak in West Africa have actually made it worse. Jeffrey Brown joins director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Dr. Tom Frieden, who just returned from surveying the situation in West Africa, to discuss the impediments to containing the disease and the prospects of it spreading.

AIR DATE 9/2/14

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