SAN FRANCISCO - Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg and his wife Priscilla Chan are giving $25 million to the CDC Foundation to help fight the Ebola epidemic.
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Britain began screening passengers arriving at London's busiest airport from West Africa for signs of the deadly Ebola virus on Tuesday.
Bernhard Ruf, the chief physician in the Department of Infectious Diseases at Leipzig's St. Georg Clinic, issued a statement after the death of an Ebola patient who underwent treatment in Germany.
Dr. Kent Brantly has now donated about a gallon of his own blood to other Ebola patients: medical missionary Dr. Rick Sacra and NBC freelance camera operator Ashoka Mukpo, and most recently Dallas nurse Nina Pham.
The death toll from the Ebola virus outbreak has risen to 4,447, with the large majority of victims in West Africa, the World Health Organization (WHO) says.
JOHANNESBURG (AP) - International aid organization Doctors Without Borders said that 16 of its staff members have been infected with Ebola and nine of them have died.
If you go by media coverage and public sentiment, the most important public-health problem in the United States right now is Ebola.
