New Jersey school forces kids from Africa to stay at home over mindless Ebola scare

New Jersey school forces kids from Africa to stay at home over mindless Ebola scare
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Two students from Rwanda enrolled at Howard Yocum Elementary School in Burlington County, New Jersey, are being kept at home over fears that they might be carrying the Ebola virus... despite the fact that Rwanda is in East Africa, some 2,600 miles from the epicenter of the outbreak in West Africa.

From Fox's local affiliate:

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Ryu Spaeth

Ryu Spaeth is deputy editor at TheWeek.com. Follow him on Twitter.