MONROVIA, Liberia (AP) — Some nurses in Liberia defied calls for a strike on Monday and turned up for work at hospitals amid the worst Ebola outbreak in history. In view of the danger of their work, members of the National Health Workers Association are demanding higher monthly hazard pay. The association has more than […]
DALLAS (AP) — The first Ebola patient diagnosed in the United States died Wednesday morning in a Dallas hospital Wednesday, a hospital spokesman said. Thomas Eric Duncan was pronounced dead at 7:51 a.m. at Texas Health Presbyterian Hospital Dallas, where he was admitted Sept. 28 and has been kept in isolation, according to spokesman Wendell […]
DALLAS (AP) — Leaders are urging calm, but Dallas is a city on edge as it approaches the first Ebola incubation deadline this week. Several residents of the neighborhood where the first U.S.-diagnosed case of Ebola was found told city officials they’d been sent home from work. Some community volunteers shunned a nearby after-school program. […]
Dr. Rachael Ross is the a co-host on the nationally syndicated show The’ Doctors’. She called into the Tom Joyner Morning Show to talk about the myths and facts surrounding Ebola. On the do’s and dont’s of Ebola: “As you’re going through life an you wanna help people you got protect yourself. You can’t come […]
OMAHA, Neb. (AP) — An American photojournalist who contracted Ebola while working in Liberia is expected to arrive Monday in Nebraska where he will be treated for the virus that has ravaged West Africa. Ashoka Mukpo, 33, will be the second Ebola patient to be treated at the Nebraska Medical Center’s specialized isolation unit. Mukpo […]
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. The Dallas Independent School District was still gathering morning attendance figures from four campuses where the affected students […]
UPDATE: The six students are headed home! The petition organizers confirmed this, writing: All six students are completely healthy and will be departing Monrovia, Liberia on August 17. We would like to thank the entire Tuskegee family, as well as all others that supported! Tuskegee also sent out a confirmation to the TU community, stating: […]
