Ebola Virus

The first person to contract the Ebola virus within the United States is taking action against the Texas hospital that exposed her to it, the Dallas Morning News reports. Nina Pham has reportedly filed a lawsuit against Texas Health Presbyterian Hospital’s corporate company, Texas Health Resources. According to her lawyers, the nurse that treated Ebola patient Thomas Eric Duncan […]

After the death of nearly 7,000 Africans and one American from the deadly Ebola virus, there is heartening news on the vaccine front.  The U.S. government through the National Institutes of Health and British pharmaceutical giant GlaxoSmithKline has developed a promising new Ebola vaccine, which could be ready as early as January 2015. In the clinical trials, which […]

Podcast: Download Are you comfortable with what Pres. Barack Obama had to say about the Ebola crisis after his emergency cabinet meeting on Wednesday? Do you think the situation under control and the United States will avoid a major outbreak of the Ebola virus? Why haven’t federal officials stepped in and seized  control of the situation in Dallas now that a […]