• American Health-Care Worker from West Africa Admitted to Atlanta's Emory Hospital with Ebola Symptoms

    Nearly three weeks after Dr. Martin Salia died at Nebraska Medical Center due to advanced Ebola symptoms, we are hearing that there may be another new case of the horrific virus once again on U.S. soil. It was confirmed by Atlanta's Emory University Hospital that at 5:45 a.m. this morning it admitted an American woman who may have been infected while performing recent duties as a health-care worker in West Africa. The woman has yet to be identified and no details have been given out about her just yet, other than the confirmation that she is at Emory, which is waiting for test results. This facility has successfully treated four recent Ebola patients, including Dr. Kent Brantly, Amber Vinson and Nancy Writebol with its special isolation unit and well-trained staff. While the Ebola virus has infected more than 17,000 in Africa just this year alone, the U.S. has, so far at least, managed to keep it from turning into an epidemic here as well. When the first cases were confirmed here, it seemed like everyone was expecting the absolute worse but instead the few cases that have developed have somehow stayed isolated occurrences.

  • Epicenter for Ebola Has Moved to Liberian Community of Jene-Wonde

    While the United States seems to have managed to prevent an outbreak of the deadly Ebola virus — at least for now — people in West Africa are still suffering. A man traveled from a large Liberian city to the small community of Jene-Wonde in Grand Cape Mount County, bringing with him his sick daughter. Within days the man and his family had died, triggering one of the worst Ebola outbreaks so far. Jene-Wonde is near the border of Sierra Leone and is currently considered to be the epicenter of the deadly disease, according to the Associated Press. The community is extremely small with absolutely no established health care. That means that the leaders of the area have no idea how to handle the crisis. They realize that surrounding communities are afraid of them, so rather than initially inviting skilled teams in to help with the dead and sanitize the area, they instead tried to hide the outbreak by burying the dead in ways that ultimately helped spread the virus. Now as many as 10 percent of the community has been infected, and there is a realistic fear that if the Ebola virus is not contained, then everyone will succumb to it.

  • Kaci Hickox, Nurse Tangled in Ebola Scandal, Breaks Quarantine after Insisting She Has No Symptoms, Ready to Go to Court to Fight for Human Rights

    Kaci Hickox believes the battle she is waging is not just about Ebola. She is the nurse who returned from treating Ebola patients in West Africa just last week and, upon landing in Newark, New Jersey, she was taken to a medical detention center to be quarantined. The scuffle began because Hickox reportedly had an elevated temperature when arriving at the airport, and so she was immediately quarantined in a tent. Eventually, Hickox was allowed to leave and returned to her Fort Kent, Maine, home, where she is locked in a battle over whether or not she is a threat to the general public. She has broken quarantine and is willing to go to court over the matter.

  • Experts Say a Travel Ban Won't Stop Ebola from Spreading

    It seems like the CDC is rewriting its protocol and rules regarding the Ebola virus on a daily basis. In the last week, we have learned that a hospital praised for its skilled care was not given the proper tools to treat those infected with Ebola and travel restrictions seem to change constantly. Even nurses such as Amber Vinson, who was confirmed to have touched base with the CDC before hopping a plane from Dallas to Ohio and back again, was misdirected in proper procedures. All of the conflicting ideas and confusion has caused many to think a travel ban might be the obvious way to go, but expert sources disagree, saying a ban will not stop Ebola from spreading.
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