From: Time
The Psychology Behind Our Collective Ebola Freak-Out
October 27, 2014
Time:
In Hazlehurst, Miss., parentspulled their children out of middle school last week after learning that the principal had recently visited southern Africa.
At Syracuse University, a Pulitzer Prize–winning photojournalist who had planned to speak about public health crises was banned from campus after working in Liberia.
An office building in Brecksville, Ohio, closed where almost 1,000 people work over fears that an employee had been exposed to Ebola.
A high school in Oregon canceled a visit from nine students from Africa — even though none of them hailed from countries containing the deadly disease.
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