NEW YORK (AP) — Deserted subways and buses. Kids being kept home from school. Harassment of West African immigrants.

These are some of the scenarios New York City officials are trying to anticipate as they seek to tamp down the hysteria as well as the virus in the event Ebola hits the nation’s most populous, densely packed metropolis.

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