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From The Newsroom: Neighbors And Nurses React To Second Health Worker With Ebola

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The top local stories this evening from the KERA Newsroom:

Amber Vinson, diagnosed with Ebola early Wednesday morning lives in the largest apartment complex in Dallas. Workers were already decontaminating in hours before the sun came up. And after two of the nurses who treated Thomas Eric Duncan became sick with Ebola, their colleagues across the state are expressing concerns about preparation for handling the disease.

You can listen to the top local news stories weekdays at 6:20 p.m. and 8:20 a.m. on KERA 90.1 FM.

Courtney Collins has been working as a broadcast journalist since graduating from the Medill School of Journalism at Northwestern University in 2004. Before coming to KERA in 2011, Courtney worked as a reporter for NPR member station WAMU in Washington D.C. While there she covered daily news and reported for the station’s weekly news magazine, Metro Connection.