Ebola

Nina Pham, the second Dallas, Texas healthcare worker to contract the Ebola virus, has been declared Ebola-free by doctors at the National Institutes of Health in Bethesda, Maryland.

After weeks of concern, worry and then near panic over the deadly Ebola virus, there is finally some good news that will (hopefully) relieve some of the lingering fear of a broader epidemic.

Health officials removed 43 Texas residents from active monitoring for the Ebola virus at midnight Monday, giving them the all-clear.

A second health care worker who cared for Thomas Eric Duncan has contracted the Ebola Virus and has been quarantined within Texas Health Presbyterian in Dallas, according to health officials.

A costume company is now selling an Ebola Containment Suit Halloween costume. It includes a white biohazard suit and mask, blue latex gloves, and safety goggles. You'll have to buy your own yellow boots to go with it.

We all know, or at least should know that there's certain things you don't say while on board an airplane or in the airport even jokingly. For example it's never a good ideal to say bomb or talk about terrorism. Don't mention guns, weapons or hijacking. It should be common sense, should be. With the recent Ebola scare that's another topic that's off limits. Obviously no one told this idiot!  Read

The DoD predicts the number of Ebola cases worldwide to be 1.4 million by the end of the year, with a 62% mortality rate.

Gov. Rick Perry visited U.S. Army troops in Fort Hood, Texas Thursday morning ahead of their deployment to Liberia to help combat the spread of Ebola.

The Liberian man who was diagnosed last month with Ebola, the first such case in the United States, died Wednesday morning at Texas Health Presbyterian Hospital in Dallas.

Thomas Eric Duncan, the first American diagnosed with Ebola, succumbed to his illness this morning, says Wendell Watson, an official at Dallas's Texas Health Presbyterian Hospital.