The deadly Ebola virus has spread to Mali with the diagnosis of a 2-year-old girl, health officials said Thursday. The child was brought to the country from neighboring Guinea, where the outbreak has killed thousands. The girl was taken to the hospital in Kayes after her father died of Ebola. A nurse noticed she was […]

A doctor who returned to the U.S. mid-October after treating Ebola patients in Guinea is the first person to be diagnosed with the deadly virus in New York City. Dr. Craig Spencer, 33, was placed in isolation on Thursday at Bellevue Hospital, six days after returning from his trip to the West African nation. Spencer […]

Let’s get one thing clear. Ebola is very real and very terrifying. The largest Ebola outbreak in history has killed nearly 5,000 people in the West African nations of Liberia, Sierra Leone, and Guinea. More than 10,000 have contracted the disease. And according to the World Health Organization (WHO), those numbers may not tell the […]

Amber Vinson, the Dallas nurse infected with Ebola, has reportedly recovered from the deadly virus. Vinson was the second person to contract Ebola in the United States. She contracted the virus after treating Thomas Eric Duncan, the Liberian man who was the first person to be diagnosed with the virus in the U.S., and the first […]

And by “sick,” we don’t mean “awesome,” “cool” or must-have-worthy. Filed under: Items you should not “Add to cart” is this $35.99 purse with the word “EBOLA” written across it, “because fashion is infectious,” according to the online shop. Because how about just no. When reached for comment the Etsy user, who goes by Shawn of the […]

The World Health Organization plans to begin Ebola vaccine testing in the next few weeks. The initial vaccine tests will be available to volunteers in the United States, Mali, and England, with goals to launch vaccine trials in West Africa by January 2015. According to CNN: The goal is to launch vaccine trials in West […]

Residents of Nigeria and Senegal can now breathe a little easier, after both countries were declared free of the deadly Ebola virus.  The World Health Organization listed the countries disease-free after no new cases were reported in the 42-day testing period. ‘Nigeria is now free of Ebola,’ WHO representative Rui Gama Vaz told a news conference in the […]

The families of Texas Ebola patients Thomas Eric Duncan and Amber Vinson have spoken out following claims that Vinson, the second nurse who contracted the virus while nursing the late Duncan, was careless for traveling after being exposed to Ebola. Vinson’s family released a statement on Sunday, reiterating that the nurse was cleared multiple times to travel. […]

The capes were cool—but this, not so much. Cam’ron is right, however: There’s nothing funny about a highly contagious, deadly virus that has claimed the life of thousands. Still, that didn’t stop him from making a “fashionable” mask to help ward it off. Except Ebola isn’t airborne, making this mask—which will be sold on Dipset’s site […]

A Texas Health Presbyterian Hospital health worker has been placed in isolation on a Carnival cruise ship amid fear that the individual might have had contact with Ebola specimens. The woman, who has not been identified, shows no signs of illness. Carnival says the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention notified them of the passenger, who […]

In a video released by Texas Health Presbyterian Hospital, Nina Pham, the first person to contract the Ebola virus in the U.S., joked with her caretakers about her move to the National Institutes of Health in Maryland. Pham boarded a G-3 jet at Dallas Love Field to fly to one of the few hospitals with a […]

This week, two nurses who cared for Ebola patient Thomas Eric Duncan at Texas Health Presbyterian Hospital were diagnosed with the deadly virus. In the weeks leading up to their diagnosis, more than 80 people who had possibly come in contact with Duncan were monitored for symptoms after it was revealed the hospital turned him away […]