In an effort to curb the spread of Ebola in the United States, the Department of Homeland Security on Tuesday announced that all travelers from countries battling the disease will be funneled through five airports with enhanced screening, USA Today reports. Jeh Johnson, secretary of Homeland Security, announced that travelers from West Africa must arrive […]
The World Health Organization (WHO) has declared Nigeria and Senegal Ebola-free after the West African countries have reported no new cases of the virulent killer after a 42-day period, twice the maximum incubation period of Ebola to detect possible unreported cases of infection. RELATED: The Latest Developments In The Ebola Crisis From Around The World [VIDEO] Interestingly enough, […]
Paranoia about Ebola making its way Stateside has caused many in the media to operate from the space of stupid. It’s not shocking, but no less frustrating. Words mean things and they have consequences so you would hope that those given the responsibility of covering the disease to the public would behave responsibly. Then again, who cares about […]
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 […]
Since childhood, Amber Joy Vinson (pictured) has wanted to work in health care. That’s why she was excited to become a nurse at Texas Health Presbyterian Hospital in Dallas. “She wanted to help people,” Diane Sloane Rhynes, whose late brother was married to Vinson’s mother for several years, told 11 Alive. “Amber has always […]
Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg (pictured right) and his wife Priscilla Chan (pictured) announced Tuesday that they are donating $25 million to the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention to help in the ongoing efforts to combat the deadly Ebola virus that has killed more than 4,400 people in West Africa, according to USA Today. […]
Chris Brown (pictured in black and white) is better known for his legal travails than his views on the state of world affairs. That was until Monday, when he raised a question about the spread of the deadly Ebola virus. RELATED: 70 Hospital Staffers Cared For Thomas Eric Duncan “I don’t know … But I […]
On Thursday, CDC Director Dr. Tom Frieden made the following statement about the current Ebola outbreak: In the 30 years I’ve been working in public health, the only thing like this has been AIDS. In West Africa, more than 8,000 people are infected with Ebola and more than 4,000 have died. The CDC estimates by January of […]
As an unidentified Black man, who was on a flight traveling from Philadelphia to Punta Cana, Dominican Republic, was coughing profusely, he joked that he had been to Africa and was stricken with the Ebola virus. Not surprisingly, the man’s off-color joke sent the passengers on the plane into panic mode, according to Fox News […]
A few years ago, I was at a community health festival in Brownsville, a high-crime, very poor area of Brooklyn that is among the worst statistically in every category in New York City. After a while, I noticed something very important: few of the people coming in for checkups, testing, and medical advice were women; a […]
Liberian national, Thomas Eric Duncan, the first person to be diagnosed with the deadly Ebola virus in the United States died on Wednesday at Texas Presbyterian Hospital. Jesse Jackson, Sr. and Zachary Thompson, Director of Dallas County Health and Human Services spoke with Roland Martin and the “NewsOne Now” Straight Talk panel (Rock Newman, Lauren […]
UPDATED Wednesday, October 8, 2014 at 11:40 a.m. E.T. – The Liberian national who was hospitalized in Texas with Ebola, Thomas Eric Duncan, has succumbed to the disease. He died at 7:51 a.m. at a hospital in Dallas. NBC News posted the hospital’s statement on Twitter: As NBC News reported: “It is with profound sadness and heartfelt […]
