ebola
According for Fox 28, health officials now think Ebola survivors can spread the disease through unprotected sex nearly twice as long as previously believed. Scientists thought the Ebola virus could remain in semen for about three months. But a recent case in West Africa suggests infection through sex can happen more than five months later. […]
From NewsOne: The first person to contract the Ebola virus within the United States is taking action against the Texas hospital that exposed her to it, the…
CNN reports that wild cheers and applause greeted Dr. Craig Spencer as he spoke publicly for the first time after being cured of Ebola. Wearing a blue sweater and smiling during the press conference at New York’s Bellevue Hospital, the American physician seemed the picture of health, less than a month since he was diagnosed […]
According to Fox 28, The nurse who demanded to be removed from quarantine in New Jersey says she won’t obey isolation orders at her home in Maine. Kaci Hickox has no symptons of the virus, but health officals want her to stay home for the remainder of a 21-day quarantine. Her lawyer says she won’t comply because […]
Nine patients have been treated in the U.S. and only one person died out of those treated. President Barack Obama said Tuesday that…
The doctor did not have a fever until after he got back to NYC and went out in public before contacting the Health Department. …
Good news for a nurse who caught Ebola while caring for the patient diagnosed in Dallas was released from a hospital Friday, free of the virus. According to Fox 28, Nurse Nina Pham said she felt “fortunate and blessed to be standing here today,” as she left the National Institutes of Health’s hospital outside Washington. […]
Do you find yourself freaking out about Ebola? Are you obsessively watching the news and reading up on statistics about Ebola overseas? Well, Jasmine Sanders just might…
I know I’m not the only person concerned about flying right now. I am a self diagnosed germaphobe, so needless to say, I’m a little on edge these days. Are you asking yourself, “Just how safe, or clean, is the airplane you’re traveling on?” Well, according to Fox 28, even though everyone can’t afford to […]
Things surrounding the Amber Vinson story just got more interesting. She is the second nurse in Dallas to contract the Ebola virus and her family just retained a high-profile attorney according to their statement. In the statement, obtained by CBS affiliate WOIO in Cleveland, the family said they “are troubled by some of the negative public comments […]
As if the country is not already on edge, we have people creating even more hysteria. According to Fox 28, a caller from a home in the 800 block of South Champion Avenue told a 9-1-1 dispatcher that a person at the home had been to Africa last month.”Her fever is 107. We just took her temperature. […]
CBS News reports that President Obama will name former White House official Ron Klain to serve as a so-called “Ebola czar” to oversee the…