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Ebola in Spain: 4 people including nurse hospitalized in Madrid
Health officials in Madrid say three more people are in the hospital on suspicion of contracting Ebola. The news comes a day after a nurse who treated two Ebola patients at a city hospital became infected with the disease. One has tested negative.
The nurse is now being treated with a drip using antibodies from those previously infected with the virus, Reuters reports. Approximately 22 people who...
Liberia censors media coverage of Ebola
Members of a medical team disinfect people at an Ebola treatment center in Liberia, October 2, 2014.
Liberia has passed a law that will restrict the media coverage of the Ebola outbreak in an attempt to protect privacy of the patients.
“We have noted with great concern that photographs have been taken in treatment centers while patients are going in to be attended by doctors. That is invasion of...
Ban All Incoming and Outgoing Flights to Ebola-Stricken Countries - Petition
The strategy, if there ever was one, has obviously failed now that an infection has been identified on U.S. soil.
As Americans across the country struggle to understand what is being done to stem the possibility of an Ebola outbreak in the United States, many have come to the conclusion that the first and most effective method of prevention is to keep it out of America to begin with.
That strategy,...
Outbreak Alert! Ebola-positive African migrant infected 10 in Texas
Thomas Eric Duncan
US health officials are monitoring 10 quarantined people who had contact with a Liberian man infected by the deadly Ebola virus. The individuals are being checked regularly as medical officials play down the risk of an outbreak. These 10 people may have infected dozens of others… an Ebola outbreak could start any second in America, it’s a mess!
The 10 individuals are...
CDC Warns Funeral Homes in U.S. to Prepare For Ebola Victims
Provisions would allow for quarantine of “well persons” who “do not show symptoms” of virus.
The Centers for Disease Control is advising funeral homes in the United States on how to handle the remains of Ebola victims, although officials are keen to stress that the development is not a cause for alarm.
A three page list of recommendations instructs funeral workers to wear...
Ebola diagnosed in America for first time - CDC
2014 Ebola Outbreak in West Africa – Outbreak Distribution Map (US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention)
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) confirmed on Tuesday that the first case of Ebola has been diagnosed in the US.
On Monday, Texas Health Presbyterian Hospital Dallas admitted a patient into strict isolation to be evaluated for potential Ebola Virus Disease (EVD),...
Obama Sends 3,000 Troops to Ebola Danger Zone
When there is a major problem somewhere in the world, Barack Obama loves to show that he is “doing something” by sending a contingent of 3000 U.S. troops to the affected area. But is it really wise for Obama to send thousands of young American men and women into the Ebola death zone? What are our troops going to do – shoot the virus? Of course not. The UN already has 6,000 uniformed peacekeepers...
Experimental Ebola vaccine's human trial begins in US
A girl walks past a slogan painted on a wall reading “Stop Ebola” in Monrovia on August 31, 2014.
An experimental US Ebola vaccine is being trialed on humans at the country’s National Institutes of Health (NIH)’s campus in Bethesda, Maryland.
The vaccine has been developed by the agency’s National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID) and GlaxoSmithKline.
Twenty healthy...
New hotbed of Ebola found in Congo as serum-treated doctor dies
Officials from the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) say that a second, separate outbreak of the deadly virus has occurred in the country. Meanwhile, a Liberian doctor treated with an experimental serum against the illness has passed away.
DRC Health Minister Felix Numbi said that two of eight people who died from a “hemorrhagic fever” last week have been diagnosed with a strain of the disease...
Clashes erupt in Liberia as government instates Ebola quarantine
Liberian security forces stand in front of protesters after clashes at West Point neighbourhood in Monrovia August 20, 2014.
Four people were injured in clashes when soldiers opened fire and used tear gas on demonstrators in the quarantine zone in the Liberian capital, Monrovia. It’s as the world tries to contain the fatal outbreak and to find a cure for the deadly disease.
The death toll from the...
Ebola death toll rises to 1229 in West Africa
The World Health Organization (WHO) has announced that the number of deaths from the Ebola outbreak in four West African nations has climbed to 1,229.
The UN health agency said on Tuesday that death toll jumped between August 14 and 16, the period which registered 113 new cases.
Médecins sans Frontières (MSF) or Doctors Without Borders says the Ebola epidemic is moving faster than authorities can...
Ebola epidemic to take six months to control: MSF
Doctors Without Borders’ (MSF) medical workers disinfect the body bag of an Ebola victim at the MSF facility in Kailahun, Sierra Leone, on August 14, 2014.
Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) or Doctors Without Borders says the Ebola epidemic is moving faster than authorities can handle and it could take six months to bring under control.
“It is…moving faster than we can respond to,”...
In Ebola Outbreak, Who Should Get Experimental Drug?
Some have said it is wrong that with hundreds of Africans dying from the outbreak of Ebola, extremely scarce supplies of an experimental drug went to two white American aid workers.
But what if the first doses of the drug, which had never been used in people and had not even finished the typical animal safety testing, had been given to African patients instead?
“It would have been the front-page...
Nigeria declares state of emergency over Ebola
The Nigerian president has declared a state of emergency in the country over the outbreak of the deadly Ebola virus.
On Friday, President Goodluck Jonathan “declared the control and containment of the Ebola virus in Nigeria a national emergency,” the president’s office said in a statement.
Jonathan urged people to avoid large gatherings to prevent the spread of the disease that has claimed...
Ebola May Have Already Crossed US Border - Border Patrol Secret Report
There’s no doubt Feds are shipping illegals from Ebola-struck countries across U.S. at taxpayer expense.
After Customs and Border Protection reported that its agents caught nearly 1,000 illegals from Ebola-struck countries this year, meaning many more have not been apprehended, the question remains whether President Barack Obama will secure the border and stop shipping illegals across the U.S....