All posts tagged "ebola"

  • President Obama will make Ron Klain, a former chief of staff to Vice President Joe Biden, his primary adviser in dealing with Ebola-related issues. (AP)
    Obama elects Ebola ‘czar’

    WASHINGTON (AP) — President Barack Obama turned to a trusted adviser to lead the nation’s Ebola response on Friday as efforts to clamp down on any possible route of infection from three Texas cases expanded, reaching a...

    • Posted October 17, 2014
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  • In this 2014 photo provided by the Samaritan's Purse aid organization, Dr. Kent Brantly, left, treats an Ebola patient at the Samaritan's Purse Ebola Case Management Center in Monrovia, Liberia. On Saturday, July 26, 2014, the North Carolina-based aid organization said Brantly tested positive for the disease and was being treated at a hospital in Monrovia. (AP Photo/Samaritan's Purse)
    South Korea to send Ebola relief team to West Africa

    SEOUL (Yonhap) — South Korea is likely to send a disaster relief team of volunteer medical workers to West Africa in an effort to help contain the spread of the deadly Ebola virus there, government sources said...

    • Posted October 17, 2014
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  • Two days after a man in Texas was diagnosed with Ebola, Dr. Gil Mobley, a Missouri doctor, checked in and boarded a plane dressed in full protection gear Thursday morning, Oct. 2, 2014, at Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International Airport. He was protesting what he called mismanagement of the crisis by the federal Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. (AP Photo/Atlanta Journal-Constitution, John Spink)
    Ebola outbreak risk in California very low, health officials say

    LOS ANGELES (CNS) – There are no cases or suspected cases of Ebola in California, and the risk of the spread of virus in the state “is very low,” a state health official said today. Ebola cannot be spread...

    • Posted October 15, 2014
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  • Eric Duncan (AP)
    First US patient diagnosed with Ebola dies in Dallas

    DALLAS (AP) — The first Ebola patient diagnosed in the United States died in a Dallas hospital Wednesday, a little more than a week after his illness exposed gaps in the nation’s defenses against the disease and...

    • Posted October 8, 2014
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  • Tom Geisbert, right, a professor of Microbiology and Immunology at the University of Texas Medical Branch, explains to Texas Gov. Rick Perry the work researchers are conducting in a Bio Safety Level 4 lab in the Galveston National Laboratory on Tuesday, Oct. 7, 2014. Perry and other state officials toured the national laboratory a day after he created a Task Force on Infectious Disease Preparedness and Response. (AP Photo/The Daily News, Jennifer Reynolds, Pool)
    ‘LA is fully prepared for Ebola’

    LOS ANGELES (CNS) – Local health officials told the Board of Supervisors today that they are fully prepared to protect Los Angeles County residents from the Ebola virus, but do not expect an outbreak. “There are no...

    • Posted October 7, 2014
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  • Two days after a man in Texas was diagnosed with Ebola, Dr. Gil Mobley, a Missouri doctor, checked in and boarded a plane dressed in full protection gear Thursday morning, Oct. 2, 2014, at Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International Airport. He was protesting what he called mismanagement of the crisis by the federal Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. (AP Photo/Atlanta Journal-Constitution, John Spink)
    NBC cameraman tests positive for Ebola in Liberia

    NEW YORK (AP) — An American cameraman helping to cover the Ebola outbreak in Liberia for NBC News has tested positive for the virus and will be flown back to the United States for treatment. NBC News...

    • Posted October 2, 2014
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  • Ebola Dallas Hospital
    First case of Ebola in U.S. confirmed in Dallas

    DALLAS (AP) — A patient at a Dallas hospital has tested positive for Ebola, the first case of the disease to be diagnosed in the United States, federal health officials announced Tuesday. The patient was in isolation at...

    • Posted September 30, 2014
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