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New York Doctor Now Free of Ebola to Be Discharged from Hospital

New York Doctor Now Free of Ebola to Be Discharged from Hospital

| November 12, 2014 Comment

New York Doctor Now Free of Ebola to Be Discharged from Hospital – A doctor’s expected hospital discharge on Tuesday after weeks of isolation treatment for Ebola was cheered by New Yorkers – from City Hall to the Harlem apartment building where he lives. According to media reports, the release of 33-yer-old Doctor Craig Spencer, […]

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White House Seeking to Reverse New York, New Jersey’s Ebola Quarantine Orders: NYT

White House Seeking to Reverse New York, New Jersey’s Ebola Quarantine Orders: NYT

| October 26, 2014 1 Comment

White House seeking to reverse New York, New Jersey’s Ebola quarantine orders: NYT The New York Times reported on Sunday, the White House is pressuring the governors of New York and New Jersey to reverse their orders imposing a quarantine on all medical workers returning from West Africa who had contacts with Ebola patients. New […]

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Fauci: Quarantine Can Have Unintended Consequences

Fauci: Quarantine Can Have Unintended Consequences

| October 26, 2014 Comment

Fauci: Quarantine can have unintended consequences – A top federal health official said Sunday, mandatory 21-day quarantines on health care workers returning from Ebola-ravaged West Africa, like those put in place by three states, can have the unintended consequence of discouraging them from volunteering. New York, New Jersey, and Illinois are the states that have now imposed mandatory […]

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What We Now Know about New York’s First Ebola Case

What We Now Know about New York’s First Ebola Case

| October 25, 2014 Comment

What We Now Know about New York’s First Ebola Case – New York City reported its first case of the deadly Ebola virus on Thursday, when a health care worker who volunteered in Guinea fell ill upon returning home in the US. Dr. Craig Spencer, 32, is now in isolation at Bellevue Hospital. Spencer had […]

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WHO Says Ebola drugs on Way, Virus Reaches Mali and New York

WHO Says Ebola drugs on Way, Virus Reaches Mali and New York

| October 25, 2014 Comment

WHO Says Ebola drugs on Way, Virus Reaches Mali and New York – As the row grows about whether or not the Ebola outbreak could have been contained earlier, and whether or not pharmaceutical companies and the medical profession have been dragging their heels on tropical medicines in general, there’s news drugs could soon be […]

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New York City Says Hospital Testing Healthcare Worker for Ebola

New York City Says Hospital Testing Healthcare Worker for Ebola

| October 24, 2014 Comment

New York City Says Hospital Testing Healthcare Worker for Ebola – A New York City hospital is running Ebola tests on a healthcare worker, Dr. Craig Spencer, with Doctors Without Borders who returned to the United States from West Africa with a fever and gastrointestinal symptoms, the city’s health department said on Thursday. Preliminary test […]

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