Hospitalization

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

Ladies, worry no more! August Alsina has been recovering from  his 3-day coma, which occurred after he collapsed in NYC during his Testimony Live tour. Now, he’s finally back. The “No Love” singer recently hit the stage for the first time since his hospitalization. He did a full set at the Bowie State University Homecoming Concert earlier […]

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 […]

The Center for Disease Control and Prevention has come under fire yet again for giving the second Texas nurse diagnosed with Ebola the green light before boarding a passenger flight on Monday. Amber Vinson, the second person to contract the deadly virus in the U.S., called the CDC before her flight due to a slightly elevated […]

UPDATE 12:00 PM EST The second healthcare worker diagnosed with Ebola in the U.S. has been identified as Amber Vinson. Health officials announced Wednesday afternoon that Vinson was a passenger on a Frontier Airlines Flight from Cleveland to Dallas-Forth Worth on Monday. Officials are now tracking down the 132 passengers aboard the flight to alert them […]

The Dallas nurse who was diagnosed with Ebola after treating patient Thomas Eric Duncan has received a blood transfusion from the missionary who survived the deadly virus. A spokesperson at Samaritan’s Purse confirmed that at the request of the hospital, Dr. Kent Brantly donated plasma to Nina Pham on Sunday. It’s the third time Brantly […]

UPDATE: 11:25 AM EST Thomas Eric Duncan, the man who was diagnosed with Ebola last week in Dallas, has died. ————— The nurse who contracted Ebola in Spain, becoming the first person to be infected with the virus in Europe, said she followed all protocol when treating two Ebola patients in a Madrid hospital. In […]