The NBC News cameraman who was the fifth American to contract Ebola in West Africa has been declared free of the virus. Ashoka Mukpo will leave a medical facility in Nebraska on Wednesday, according to the hospital. He took to Twitter to share the good news. Just got my results. 3 consecutive days negative. Ebola […]

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 […]

So this is happening. Ebola toys are a thing. And believe it or not, they’re a huge mistake hit. Giant Microbes, a company that specializes in educational toys, created the stuffed animal-virus-strain-poop-look-alike item that people seem to love. The description on the toy? “Since its discovery in 1976, Ebola has become the T. Rex of […]

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. […]

Five weeks after University of Virginia student Hannah Graham disappeared, police have found what appears to be human remains. Chesterfield County Sheriff department searched an abandoned property and found body parts but haven’t confirmed whether or not the remains are linked to Graham. Police said that forensic tests need to be done to determine the identification. […]

A woman from Dallas, who was loosely linked to the patient that died from Ebola in the U.S. this past week, was recently emergency tested by officials while aboard a Carnival cruise ship. According to CNN, the female passenger voluntarily isolated herself into her cabin while on the ship, and was said to be in […]

This guy must be up to something. Yesterday, a judge cleared his courtroom after an inmate told everyone in the room that he had Ebola. 42-year-old Joseph Britton was arrested for battery and disorderly conduct on Thursday night and while his arrest report was being read in the courtroom, Britton licked his hands several times […]

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 […]