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They have become a dramatic fixture of the fight against Ebola: special gurneys inside disease-containment pods for patients with dangerous infections, like the two sick Americans and one Spaniard flown out of west Africa recently.

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As a deadly Ebola outbreak continues in West Africa, health officials are working to calm fears about how the virus spreads, while encouraging those with symptoms to get medical care. Typically, outbreaks of the disease have been in other parts of the continent, not in West Africa.

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As it guards against the deadly virus being imported here, this country appears to have none of those “isolators,” but that was not always the case, say two ex-federal government employees.