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U.S. campuses are on edge over Ebola

Noted: ?Over all, colleges and universities are on the low end of risk,? said Craig M. Roberts, an epidemiologist for the University of Wisconsin at Madison?s University Health Services and a clinical assistant professor of population health sciences. Roberts, who is also chair of the American College Health Association?s Emerging Public Health Threats and Emergency Response Coalition, noted that about 36,000 people have entered the U.S. in the last six months from the three African nations at the center of the outbreak ? Guinea, Liberia, and Sierra Leone ? and only about 300 of them were college students.