Screen grab from Fox News. (photo: Fox News/The New Yorker)
08 October 14
The
article below is satire. Andy Borowitz is an American comedian and New
York Times-bestselling author who satirizes the news for his column,
"The Borowitz Report."
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Ohio man has become infected with misinformation about the Ebola virus
through casual contact with cable news, the Centers for Disease Control
has confirmed.
Tracy Klugian, thirty-one, briefly came into contact
with alarmist Ebola hearsay during a visit to the Akron-Canton airport,
where a CNN report about Ebola was showing on one of the televisions in
the airport bar. “Mr. Klugian is believed to have been exposed to cable
news for no more than ten minutes, but long enough to become infected,” a
spokesman for the C.D.C. said. “Within an hour, he was showing signs of
believing that an Ebola outbreak in the United States was inevitable
and unstoppable.”
Once Klugian’s condition was apparent, the Ohio man
was rushed to a public library and given a seventh-grade biology
textbook, at which point he “started to stabilize,” the spokesman said.
But others exposed to the widening epidemic of Ebola
misinformation may not be so lucky. “A man in Oklahoma was exposed to
Elisabeth Hasselbeck on Fox for over three minutes,” the C.D.C.
spokesman said gravely. “We hope we’re not too late.”
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