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Surgeon With Ebola Coming To U.S. For Care
FREETOWN, Sierra Leone (AP) — A surgeon working in Sierra Leone has been diagnosed with Ebola and will be flown Saturday to the United States for treatment, officials from Sierra Leone and the United...
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Surgeon Who Contracted Ebola In Sierra Leone Dies At Neb. Hospital
OMAHA, Neb. — A surgeon who contracted Ebola in his native Sierra Leone died Monday while being treated in a biocontainment unit at a Nebraska hospital, the facility said. Dr. Martin Salia died of the...
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Md. Community Mourns Death of Surgeon Who Contracted Ebola
UPDATED: November 17, 2014 6:55 p.m. NEW CARROLLTON, Md. (WNEW/AP) — News of Dr. Martin Salia’s death from Ebola at a clinic in Nebraska is taking a heavy toll on the West African community in...
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US Troops Coming Back From West Africa To Spend Thanksgiving In Quarantine
HAMPTON ROADS, Va. (CBS DC) – A family Thanksgiving dinner will have to wait for relatives of servicemen and women returning from the Ebola fight in West Africa. The Pentagon has ordered that all...
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Bono, Affleck Stay Silent in PSA on Ebola Response
LOS ANGELES — Bono, Matt Damon, Ben Affleck, Morgan Freeman and “The Walking Dead” actress Danai Gurira are among celebrities playing the waiting game in a new online campaign calling for a unified...
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Md. Memorial Planned For Doctor Who Died of Ebola
LANDOVER HILLS, Md. — A church in Maryland will hold a vigil and memorial service for a doctor who contracted Ebola in Sierra Leone and died after being brought to the United States. Saint Mary’s...
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U-Md. Ebola Vaccine Study Progresses
BALTIMORE — The University of Maryland School of Medicine says it has administered an experimental Ebola vaccine to 20 volunteers in Baltimore. Officials said Friday they expect preliminary results in...
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Md. Doctor Who Died of Ebola Hailed as Hero
UPDATED: November 29, 2014 4:38 p.m. LANDOVER HILLS, Md. (WNEW/AP) — Relatives, friends and dignitaries from the United States gathered at St. Mary’s Church to remember the heroic actions of a surgeon...
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Obama Drawing Attention to Ebola Vaccine Research
WASHINGTON — President Barack Obama is highlighting advances in research for an Ebola vaccine and pushing Congress to approve his request for $6.2 billion to confront the disease abroad and to secure...
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2 Virginia Hospitals Designated for Ebola Care
RICHMOND, Va. — Health officials have designated two Virginia hospitals as Ebola treatment centers. The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services included the University of Virginia Medical Center...
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North Korea Blames U.S. For Ebola Outbreak
WASHINGTON (CBS DC) – The United States is behind the Ebola outbreak in West Africa, according to North Korea. Hong Sun Gwang, vice-president of the country’s State Sanitary Inspection Board, claimed...
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Obama: Ebola Fight ‘Nowhere Close To Being Over’
BETHESDA, Md. (CBSDC/AP) — Declaring the “fight is nowhere close to being over,” President Barack Obama on Tuesday heralded strides in the effort to confront Ebola in West Africa and in protecting the...
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Ice Bucket, Brazil Elections Popular on Facebook
NEW YORK — Day after day, Facebook captures our best and worst moments, from the birth of a new baby to heated political spats. So what got discussed the most in 2014? The Ice Bucket Challenge and the...
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TIME Magazine Names Its ‘Person of the Year’
LANHAM, Md. (WNEW) — TIME magazine has announced its “Person of the Year,” or, more accurately, its people of the year. “Ebola fighters,” like the special forces of Doctors Without Borders and...
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Nurse Exposed to Ebola to be Admitted at NIH
LANHAM, Md. (WNEW) – A U.S. nurse who was exposed to the Ebola virus while volunteering in Sierra Leone will be admitted to the National Institutes of Health Thursday for observation. The patient will...
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Baltimore Wedding Gown Designer Creates Suit for Ebola Workers
LANHAM, Md. (WNEW) — A Baltimore wedding dress designer has been working overtime to create a new kind of suit to protect healthcare workers from the Ebola virus. Jill Andrews, of Jill Andrews Gowns on...
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Nurse Exposed to Ebola Discharged from NIH
LANHAM, Md. (WNEW) – An American nurse who was admitted to the National Institutes of Health in Bethesda after being exposed to Ebola has now been released, health officials say. Below is the statement...
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Top Ten Stories Of 2014
MALAYSIAN AIRLINES PLANE SHOT DOWN Malaysia Airlines Flight 17 was show down over a pro-Russian territory in Ukraine in July during the height of the Russia-Ukraine unrest. All 283 passengers and 15...
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2014 Top Stories of the Year
Missing Persons Cases Rattle the Area Relisha Rudd. Sarah and Jacob Hoggle. Hannah Graham. It was a year of high-profile missing persons cases for D.C., Maryland and Virginia. For some, the search for...
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Study: Climbing Tree in Guinea Village May Have Been Epicenter of Ebola Outbreak
LANHAM, Md. (WNEW) — The epicenter of this year’s Ebola outbreak in West Africa, the largest in history, may be a climbing tree popular with children in a southeastern Guinea village, according to a...
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Ohio Bridal Store Linked to Ebola Survivor is Closing
AKRON, Ohio — Operators of a northeast Ohio bridal shop linked to an Ebola survivor say the store is closing because it lost significant business and has been stigmatized. Dallas nurse Amber Vinson was...
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Silver Spring-Based Nonprofit Opens New Burial Site for Ebola Victims in Liberia
LANHAM, Md. (WNEW) — Global Communities, a nonprofit based in Silver Spring, Maryland, recently announced the opening of a new Ebola burial site in Liberia. Last month, Global Communities partnered...
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Liberia Begins First Large-Scale Testing Of 2 Potential Ebola Vaccines
WASHINGTON (AP) — It took 16 years of twists and turns. Over and over, Dr. Nancy Sullivan thought she was close to an Ebola vaccine, only to see the next experiment fail. “A case of resuscitation more...
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Army Unit from Md. Packing Up Ebola Mobile Labs in Liberia
ABERDEEN, Md. — A U.S. military medical unit from Aberdeen Proving Ground in Maryland is packing up four mobile Ebola testing laboratories in Liberia after a nearly four-month deployment. The Joint...
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Possible Case of Ebola in Arlington County
UPDATED: Feb. 26, 2015 5:51 p.m. ARLINGTON, Va. (WNEW) – A Clarendon resident has been released from the Virginia Hospital Center after an Ebola scare Thursday. Officials say an evaluation determined...
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What to Know About Ebola
What to know about Ebola: ___ HOW IT SPREADS Ebola doesn’t spread easily like the flu, a cold or measles. The virus isn’t airborne. Instead, it’s in a sick person’s bodily fluids, such as blood, vomit,...
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U.S., Liberia Start 1st Formal Test of ZMapp Ebola Virus Drug
BETHESDA, Md. — The U.S. and Liberian governments are starting the first formal patient testing of an experimental Ebola virus treatment that’s been used on an emergency basis. The drug, ZMapp,...
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Nurse Who Survived Ebola Sues Dallas Hospital System
DALLAS (CBSDFW/AP)— A 26-year-old nurse who contracted Ebola while caring for the first person in the U.S. diagnosed with the deadly disease has filed a lawsuit against the parent company of the Dallas...
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NIH to Admit an Ebola Patient on Friday
UPDATED: 7:15 p.m. March 12, 2015 WASHINGTON (WNEW/AP) – The National Institutes of Health in Bethesda says it will admit a patient with Ebola on Friday. The patient is an American healthcare worker...
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Ebola Patient at NIH Downgraded to Critical Condition
WASHINGTON (WNEW/AP) — The Ebola patient who was admitted to the National Institutes of Health Clinical Center in Bethesda Friday is now in critical condition, hospital officials said Monday. The...
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Military Unit Returns From Running Ebola Labs in Liberia
ABERDEEN, Md. — A U.S. military medical unit is returning to Aberdeen Proving Ground in Maryland after overseeing mobile Ebola testing laboratories in Liberia for four months. Monday’s homecoming...
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Ebola Patient at NIH Upgraded to Serious Condition
UPDATED: March 26, 2015 4:32 p.m. WASHINGTON (WNEW/AP) – The condition of the American healthcare worker being treated for Ebola at the National Institutes of Health in Bethesda has improved. NIH says...
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Study: No Evidence Of Ebola Virus Evolution In West Africa
BETHESDA, Md. (CBS DC) — New research on the spread of the Ebola virus in West Africa suggests that the virus is not becoming more severe or transmissible, according to a National Institutes of Health...
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Ebola Patient’s Condition Upgraded at NIH
WASHINGTON (WNEW) – The American healthcare worker being treated for Ebola at the National Institutes of Health is now upgraded from serious to fair condition. The patient was upgraded from critical to...
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App Enables Self-Reporting of Possible Ebola Symptoms in Md.
UPDATED: April 1, 2015 7:31 p.m. BALTIMORE — Maryland residents who have been to any of the three West African countries battling an Ebola outbreak now can use their smartphone or computer to report...
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American Who Contracted Ebola Improves to Good Condition
BETHESDA, Md. — Officials say an American health care worker who contracted Ebola while volunteering in Sierra Leone has improved to good condition at the National Institutes of Health in Bethesda. NIH...
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American Who Contracted Ebola Released from NIH
WASHINGTON (WNEW) — Officials say an American health care worker who contracted Ebola while volunteering in Sierra Leone has been released from the National Institutes of Health in Bethesda. NIH said...
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UN Official Says Ebola Will End In Sierra Leone In Weeks
UNITED NATIONS (AP) — The U.N. Ebola chief said Monday he believes “it’s only a matter of weeks” before the Ebola outbreak in Sierra Leone ends, but stopping the deadly disease in Guinea will take more...
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Biotech Company to Manufacture Ebola Treatment in Baltimore
GAITHERSBURG, Md. — A biotechnology company has announced that a drug that could cure patients of the Ebola virus will be manufactured at its Baltimore facility. The Baltimore Sun reports that Emergent...
View ArticleWoman With Ebola Spread Virus One Year After Infection, Doctors Say
LIBERIA (CBS Local) – Doctors have made a disturbing discovery about 2014’s deadly Ebola outbreak in Africa. A woman who survived the virus is believed to have spread it one year after her initial...
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