Some U.S. cities are overwhelmed by the sheer numbers of illegal immigrants arriving from Ebola-stricken countries.
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A defiant epidemiology nurse broke quarantine to go for a bike ride with her boyfriend today in Maine. Hordes of photographers ran alongside Kaci Hickox's bike as she rode through her rural town for about an hour. Hickox refused to quarantine herself for 21 days after returning from West Africa where she treated Ebola patients.
The first person diagnosed with Ebola in NYC lied about his whereabouts in the the days before he tested positive for the deadly disease.
Three American health care workers, one white, one Asian, and one black, were diagnosed with Ebola and eventually recovered. Guess which one was not invited to the White House for a staged photo op with President Obama?
A nurse who was placed under forced quarantine in New Jersey after arriving from West Africa says she will sue the state of NJ.
Despite testing negative for Ebola twice, Kaci Hickox is being held inside a specialized tent at University Hospital in Newark, NJ.
Ebola-free nurse Nina Pham was invited to the White House to meet with President Obama in the Oval Office today after she was released from NIH hospital in Maryland.
Dallas Ebola nurse Amber Vinson has tested negative for the deadly Ebola virus at Emory Hospital in Atlanta just 9 days after she was diagnosed. Vinson was one of 2 Dallas nurses infected with Ebola after caring for Thomas Eric Duncan who died earlier this month.
Rap tycoon T.I. Harris flew to Tanzania to perform a concert in the Motherland on Friday. Sources tell gossip tabloid TMZ.com that T.I. was not afraid of contracting the deadly Ebola virus because he is as far away from the hot zones as possible.
An ambulance employee caused an uproar on the Internet because he was not wearing protective gear while accompanying Dallas Ebola nurse from Dallas to Atlanta on Wednesday.
The 3rd patient to be diagnosed with Ebola on U.S. soil is a 29-year-old nurse who worked in close contact with an Ebola patient who died last week.
Dr. Brenda Fitzgerald, Commissioner and State Health Officer of the Georgia Department of Public Health, and Brian Kemp, the Secretary of State, sent emails to all professional licensed nurses in the state of Georgia today. The lengthy email contains detailed information about Ebola transmission, clinical guidance, and specific health risks to health care workers and patients.
Trick or treaters are making light of the deadly Ebola crisis by wearing hazmat suits -- but not everyone is laughing.
A second nurse who treated Dallas Ebola patient Thomas Eric Duncan has been diagnosed with the deadly Ebola virus.
"An additional health care worker testing positive for Ebola is a serious concern, and the CDC has already taken active steps to minimize the risk to health care workers and the patient," said the CDC in a statement on Wednesday.
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in Atlanta has come under scrutiny for pointing the finger of blame at a nurse who contracted the deadly Ebola virus while caring for an Ebola patent in Dallas.
Evidence of clinical negligence is piling up against a Texas hospital that initially turned away a patient with Ebola-like symptoms who later died.