Oct 15 Watch Obama meets with top health, security aides on Ebola after second U.S. nurse infected By PBS News Hour Continue watching
Oct 15 Before Ebola, Ellis Island's terrifying medical inspections By Dr. Howard Markel Oct. 15, 1966 marked the day that Ellis Island (along with Liberty Island and the Statue of Liberty) was officially listed on the U.S. National Register of Historic Places. Continue reading
Oct 15 Second Texas hospital worker tests positive for Ebola, flew on airplane By News Desk A second hospital worker who had been caring for the first diagnosed Ebola patient in the United States has tested positive for the virus. She flew on Frontier Airlines the day before she reported symptoms, and passengers on the flight… Continue reading
Oct 14 Watch What Wall Street's wild swings say about the global economy By PBS News Hour Lately the financial markets have been swinging from record leaps to sudden drops. Eswar Prasad, an economist at Cornell University and the Brookings Institution, says that while the U.S. economy is continuing its recovery, the rest of the world is… Continue watching
Oct 14 Watch News Wrap: West Africa's Ebola fatality rate rises to 70 percent By PBS News Hour In our news wrap Tuesday, the World Health Organization updated its Ebola death count to 4,450 fatalities out of 8,900 cases. There could be 10,000 new cases per week within a month, according to the agency. Also, Amnesty International reported… Continue watching
Oct 14 Mark Zuckerberg to give $25M to fight Ebola By Ashira Morris Facebook C.E.O. Mark Zuckerberg announced on Facebook that the he and his wife, pediatrician Priscilla Chan, will give $25 million to help prevent the spread of Ebola. Continue reading
Oct 14 Bringing safer burial rituals to Ebola outbreak countries By Larisa Epatko A French anthropologist is helping the World Health Organization come up with safer burial practices, while trying to maintain tradition, in Ebola-ridden West African countries. Continue reading
Oct 14 WATCH LIVE: CDC Ebola briefing at 3 p.m. EDT By News Desk The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention will host a press conference at 3 p.m. EDT today to update the investigation of Ebola in the U.S. and West Africa. Director Dr. Tom Frieden and the Texas Department of State Health… Continue reading
Oct 14 Dallas nurse who contracted Ebola receives blood transfusion By Justin Scuiletti Nurse Nina Pham, confirmed Monday as the health worker who tested positive for Ebola after caring for U.S. Ebola patient Thomas Eric Duncan, received a blood transfusion from an Ebola survivor and is reported to be “clinically stable.”… Continue reading
Oct 14 UN medical worker dies of Ebola in Germany By Jordan Vesey A UN medical worker who was infected with Ebola while in Liberia died Monday night in a clinic in Leipzig, Germany. Continue reading