Ebola won’t spread beyond West Africa, experts say

LODI, California: Just hearing the word Ebola elicits fear. Since earlier this year when the epidemic in West Africa was first realized, millions of dollars have been spent preparing for a global pandemic. But for at least one physician, that is money not well spent.

That’s one of the messages Dr. James Appel shared on Monday at Lodi Memorial Hospital with area health professionals—many of them front-line workers in emergency and critical care medicine undergoing new training regimens to deal with the disease should a patient present in San Joaquin County.