The screening process for Ebola is being reviewed after a nurse with the virus was allowed to leave Heathrow Airport despite being tested. http://www.standard.co.uk/news/health/screening-process-for-ebola-under-review-after-nurse-with-virus-travels-through-heathrow-9951291.html
Police are investigating comments made on Twitter by controversial TV personality Katie Hopkins following complaints. http://www.standard.co.uk/news/crime/katie-hopkins-tweets-about-ebola-nurse-investigated-by-police-9951728.html
The first Briton known to have caught the deadly Ebola virus in the current outbreak has been released from north London’s Royal Free Hospital. http://www.london24.com/news/health/ebola_victim_released_from_north_london_hospital_1_3755703
WASHINGTON – Texas health officials have confined four people to their home, under guard, after they had close contact with an Ebola patient hospitalized in Dallas, as disease detectives work to make sure the deadly virus doesn’t spread in the U.S. F… http://www.huffingtonpost.ca/2014/10/03/ebola-thomas-duncan_n_5925024.html?utm_hp_ref=canada
A patient at a Toronto hospital is being tested for Ebola, though officials say it's "very unlikely" the individual has the virus. The unidentified patient is at a University Health Network facility. After news leaked t… http://www.huffingtonpost.ca/2014/10/02/ebola-test-toronto_n_5924618.html
Ebola has orphaned thousands of children in West Africa, and relatives are terrified of taking them in for fear of infection, the United Nations said. http://edition.cnn.com/2014/10/02/health/ebola-outbreak/index.html?hpt=iaf_c1
MONROVIA, Liberia (AP) — Thomas Eric Duncan rushed to help his 19-year-old neighbor when she began convulsing days after complaining of stomach pain. Everyone assumed her illness was related to her being seven months pregnant. http://news.yahoo.com/texas-ebola-patients-neighborhood-scores-sick-140016735.html
The first reported case of Ebola in the United States is spooking airline investors and raising the prospect that some frightened travelers might stay home despite repeated reassurances from public-health experts. http://news.yahoo.com/man-ebola-virus-flew-roundabout-trip-us-125852406.html
London (AFP) – Five people are being infected with Ebola every hour in Sierra Leone and demand for treatment beds is far outstripping supply, the Save the Children charity warned on Thursday. http://news.yahoo.com/five-people-contract-ebola-every-hour-sierra-leone-091000374.html
LONDON (AP) — In the face of an Ebola outbreak unlike any other seen before, officials are turning to unprecedented measures: makeshift clinics that will offer little or no care. http://news.yahoo.com/type-clinic-eyed-help-stop-ebola-114657680.html
DALLAS (AP) — Worries over Ebola kept some Dallas schoolchildren home Thursday after school officials identified five students who may have come into contact with the first person in the U.S. to be diagnosed with the virus. http://news.yahoo.com/ebola-worries-could-keep-dallas-students-home-051137929.html
By Lisa Maria Garza DALLAS (Reuters) – Up to 100 people may have had direct or indirect contact with the first person to be diagnosed with the deadly Ebola virus in the United States, and four of his relatives have been quarantined in their homes as a precaution, health officials said Thursday. Dallas County […]
The International Rescue Committee (IRC), on behalf of 34 NGOs battling Ebola in West Africa, has warned that the number of cases is doubling roughly every three weeks and the globe has only four weeks to stop the crisis from spiraling out of control. http://rt.com/news/192628-ebola-scare-london-conference/
The Dallas Ebola patient had come into contact with as many as 100 people, according to Texas health officials. This figure is significantly higher than initially thought. http://rt.com/usa/192568-texas-ebola-patient-contact/
UK aid cuts to West Africa’s two worst Ebola-blighted nations may have contributed to the rapid spread of the deadly virus, MPs have said. This comes as London hosts an international summit to discuss the crisis. http://rt.com/uk/192460-ebola-conference-london-hammond/
The first Briton known to have caught the deadly Ebola virus in the current outbreak has been released from north London’s Royal Free Hospital. http://www.london24.com/news/health/ebola_victim_released_from_north_london_hospital_1_3755703
Thomas Duncan’s family “screamed” as he vomited uncontrollably outside his apartment block while waiting for an ambulance to take him to hospital http://www.thetimes.co.uk/tto/news/world/americas/article4224370.ece
The Ebola outbreak in West Africa may have been worsened by the UK slashing aid to the region, a report claimed today. http://www.standard.co.uk/news/politics/ebola-outbreak-uk-may-have-made-problem-worse-by-slashing-aid-9769144.html
WASHINGTON, Oct 2 (Reuters) – As many as 80 people were in contact with the Dallas Ebola patient at some point, Texas health officials told NBC, marking a significant jump from the 18 people authorities had said may have been exposed to the deadly vi… http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/10/02/texas-ebola_n_5919522.html
Back in August, it only took Mt. Sinai Hospital workers in New York seven minutes to isolate and start treating a man who they suspected of having Ebola. Other U.S. hospitals have also speedily screened and tested suspected Ebola patients, all withou… http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/10/01/hospital-ebola-preparatio_n_5916756.html
DALLAS (AP) — The airline passenger who brought Ebola into the U.S. initially went to a Dallas emergency room last week but was sent home, despite telling a nurse that he had been in disease-ravaged West Africa, the hospital said Wednesday in a… http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/10/01/ebola-texas-liberia_n_5915038.html
Although more than 2,600 victims have died in the largest Ebola outbreak in history, one woman’s story of survival could be a sign of hope for those that are still battling the illness. Dr. Ada Igonoh contracted Ebola in Nigeria after treati… http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/09/22/ada-igonoh-survivor-ebola_n_5864156.html