NYC Preps for Ebola

The Brian Lehrer Show | Oct 9, 2014

New York City is on high alert for Ebola -- starting to screen passengers arriving at Kennedy Airport from the three West African countries that are struggling to contain Ebola and prepping local hospitals to screen and treat potential cases. Aileen Marty, professor of infectious diseases at Florida International University and the director of its Health Travel Medicine Program and Vaccine Clinic, discusses the preparations in New York.

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