Local Ebola safety plans based on latest research They say Ebola conference calls, meetings and workshops are helping them validate local plans and protocols.
UPDATE: 2 people in Marrero being monitored for Ebola … Two Marrero residents who have recently returned from Sierra Leone are being monitored for the Ebola virus, according to Jefferson Parish Councilman Chris Roberts.
Texas nurse tests positive for Ebola, would be 1st … A female nurse at Texas Health Presbyterian Hospital in Dallas has tested positive for Ebola after a preliminary test, officials said.
Nurse defies forced Ebola quarantine, goes on bike … Kaci Hickox and her boyfriend left their house Thursday in the tiny town of Fort Kent and pedaled along a long country road.
Second Dallas health care worker now infected with … A second health care worker who cared for an Ebola patient at a Dallas hospital has contracted the virus herself.
Texas health workers use Tabasco to help train for … By SYDNEY LUPKIN via Good Morning America As Texas health workers prepare two new biocontainment units to help treat any future Ebola patients the state might have, they’re using one piece of training equipment from a neighboring state that may surprise you: Tabasco sauce. At the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, where one of […]
Parents petition to quarantine teacher traveling … The hysteria over Ebola has reached new heights in Oklahoma.
First Ebola patient diagnosed in the US has died Dallas Ebola patient Thomas Eric Duncan died Wednesday morning at Texas Health Presbyterian Hospital, the hospital said.
Judge blocks Ebola victim’s incinerated belongings … A temporary restraining order has been granted blocking the disposal of incinerated waste from the Texas Ebola victim’s personal items at a Louisiana landfill.
D.H.H. monitors local traveler for Ebola symptoms “Regularly whenever somebody comes to a state has been screened in one of these airports,” says Dr. Raoult C. Ratard, MD.
Ebola update: Texas quarantine lifted; talk of travel bans NEW ORLEANS – Sunday night, the quarantine for four people in Texas who lived with a man who died of the Ebola virus was lifted. Those four in Dallas, along with another 40 others who had contact with Eric Duncan, have been medically cleared with no further infections. So far, only two nurses who had […]
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