Infectious disease experts say that school officials in Ohio and Texas overreacted when they canceled classes Thursday due to fears of Ebola. Several schools shut their doors over concerns
that some staff members and students might have come in contact with a person infected with Ebola.


An e-mail sent to parents in the
in Northeast Ohio said they closed Solon Middle and Parkside Elementary schools Thursday after they learned a middle school staff member may have traveled aboard the same airplane, though not on the same flight, as Dallas nurse Amber Joy Vinson.