Cuban health worker wants to return to West Africa after being cured of Ebola A Cuban doctor who was treated in Geneva after contracting the Ebola virus while working in Sierra Leone last month said he intends on returning to the West African country.
A U.S. healthcare worker who may have been exposed to Ebola in West Africa is currently being monitored at Emory University Hospital in Atlanta, Georgia. The patient, who has not been identified, arrived from a West African country early on Thursday for testing and observation, the hospital said.
A doctor from Italy working for a nongovernmental organization tested positive for Ebola while in Sierra Leone. He will be flown to Rome for treatment, according to authorities Monday.
The United States is giving visitors from Ebola-ravaged countries temporary protected status, which allows them to remain in the country for up to 18 months.
The United States will receive its tenth medical patient diagnosed with Ebola Saturday afternoon. The United States will receive its tenth medical patient diagnosed with Ebola Saturday afternoon.
Global authorities said Wednesday that the deaths of a cleric and a nurse from the Ebola virus in Mali went unnoticed and the country is struggling to prevent a major outbreak.
Doctors Without Borders will team up with European research organizations, the WHO and the governments of Guinea and Liberia to test two drugs and one treatment, which would hopefully work against the Ebola virus.
On Wednesday, the health ministry announced that a nurse died in the Malian capital of Bamako, becoming the second victim to fall fatally ill from the disease in the country, reports BBC.
Google certainly wants to show that it cares about the devastating virus known as Ebola. Google certainly wants to show that it cares about the devastating virus known as Ebola.
Bats both blamed and possibly holder of a cure for Ebola The same animal responsible for spreading the Ebola virus may hold the cure as well, scientists in the U.
According to Reuters, the United Nations declared that the shortage of food and basic goods is driving some in quarantine zones to leavedespite the growing number of Ebola cases in Sierra Leone as the country lacks treatment centers.
President Barack Obama made a request to Congress for $6.2 billion in emergency funds to combat Ebola at its West African source and to secure the United States against any possible spread, according to The Associated Press.
In the Russian city of St. Petersburg, a memorial to Apple Inc. co-founder Steve Jobs was dismantled after Tim Cook, the man that succeed Jobs at the helm of the multi-billion dollar computer manufacturing company, came out as gay.
An Oregon woman is currently being tested for Ebola after showing symptoms of the deadly disease. An Oregon woman is currently being tested for Ebola after showing symptoms of the deadly disease.
Amber Vinson becomes the fourth Ebola patient successfully treated in the US The second of two Dallas nurses who contracted Ebola was declared free of the disease and on Tuesday was released from Emory University Hospital in Atlanta.
