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

By Rebecca Hersher
Published October 14, 2014 at 4:29 PM EDT
The sign NPR producer Rebecca Hersher saw as she left Liberia to return to the United States.
Rebecca Hersher
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The sign NPR producer Rebecca Hersher saw as she left Liberia to return to the United States.

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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Rebecca Hersher
Rebecca Hersher (she/her) is a reporter on NPR's Science Desk, where she reports on outbreaks, natural disasters, and environmental and health research. Since coming to NPR in 2011, she has covered the Ebola outbreak in West Africa, embedded with the Afghan army after the American combat mission ended, and reported on floods and hurricanes in the U.S. She's also reported on research about puppies. Before her work on the Science Desk, she was a producer for NPR's Weekend All Things Considered in Los Angeles.
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