Ebola
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 Dallas Morning News reports. Nina Pham has reportedly filed a lawsuit against Texas Health Presbyterian Hospital’s corporate company, Texas Health Resources. According to her lawyers, the nurse that treated Ebola patient Thomas […]
The World Health Organization (WHO) reports nearly 9,000 lives in West Africa have been lost to the Ebola epidemic that began March 2014 and this…
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After the death of nearly 7,000 Africans and one American from the deadly Ebola virus, there is heartening news on the vaccine front. The U.S. government through the…
The doctor from Sierra Leone who was being treated for Ebola in the United States has died, according to AFP. We’ll bring more on this…
The latest Ebola patient, a doctor who contracted the virus while working in Sierra Leone, has arrived in the United States. Dr. Martin Salia was…
A healthcare strike has begun to take place in the West African countries of Sierra Leone, Guinea, Liberia and in the state of California. African caretakers…
The New York doctor that tested positive for Ebola has gotten a clean bill of health, and he’s due to be released from the hospital…
After two boys got in trouble at school for allegedly telling Ebola jokes, their parents decided to teach them a lesson. They pranked the boys by…
Her quarantine is scheduled to end on November 10 despite her refusal to participate. MAINE – Kaci Hickox, a nurse who was quarantined at a hospital in New Jersey after treating Ebola patients in West Africa, left her home overnight during a mandatory quarantine. Now, the state is monitoring her every move. ABC’s […]
Nine patients have been treated in the U.S. and only one person died out of those treated. President Barack Obama said Tuesday that Americans deployed to West Africa since August have had a positive impact in the fight against the Ebola virus. “They are starting to see some progress in Liberia,” he said. “That’s thanks […]