Oct 06 Watch Fifth American Ebola victim returns to U.S. for treatment – Part 1 By PBS News Hour Continue watching
Oct 06 Spanish nurse contracts Ebola, the first case of transmission outside West Africa By Joshua Barajas A nurse in Spain has tested positive for Ebola. This is the first known case of someone contracting the virus outside of West Africa, the country's health officials said Monday. Continue reading
Oct 06 Sierra Leone faces deadliest day in Ebola outbreak By Anna Christiansen Sunday marked one of the deadliest days in this year’s Ebola epidemic. In Sierra Leone, the disease claimed 121 lives in 24 hours. The nation’s death toll has now jumped to 678, and 81 additional cases of the hemorrhagic… Continue reading
Oct 06 Two poems on what it’s like to live with Ebola, climate change By Larisa Epatko The two women live in different parts of the world: one on a tropical island in the Pacific, another in a former war-torn African country now fighting Ebola. Their lives are very different but they chose the same way to… Continue reading
Oct 06 101st Airborne headed to Liberia to fight Ebola, build treatment centers By Lolita C. Baldor, Associated Press Maj. Gen. Gary J. Volesky says his soldiers went through a two days of training with the Center for Disease Control professionals and others to learn about the Ebola threat. He says medical personnel from Fort Detrick, Maryland, will be… Continue reading
Oct 06 U.S. considers extra Ebola screening steps for passengers from infected countries By Associated Press Dr. Anthony Fauci, director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, said "all options are being looked at." The question, Fauci told CNN, is whether "the extra level of screening is going to be worth the resources you… Continue reading
Oct 05 Anxiety rising in U.S., but expert says Ebola outbreak ‘extraordinarily unlikely’ By Connie Cass, Associated Press The nation's top infectious diseases expert said it's perfectly normal to feel anxious about a disease that kills so fast and is ravaging parts of West Africa. Continue reading
Oct 04 Watch PBS NewsHour Weekend full episode Oct. 4, 2014 By PBS News Hour On this edition for Saturday, Oct. 4, one of America's top health experts talks to NewsHour Weekend about combating Ebola in the United States. Later, a report on the beheading of a British aid worker by ISIS militants. And, the… Continue watching
Oct 04 Watch How can the spread of Ebola be stopped in the US? By PBS News Hour How can the spread of the Ebola virus be stopped? Dr. Anthony Fauci, the Director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, joins Hari Sreenivasan to discuss lessons learned in the missteps made in treating Ebola patient Thomas… Continue watching
Oct 04 UPDATE: Howard University Hospital has ‘ruled out’ Ebola for D.C. patient By Colleen Shalby, Joshua Barajas Health officials have "ruled out" Ebola as a possible diagnosis for the patient being treated at Howard University, according to a statement issued on Saturday. Continue reading