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October 28, 2015

Texas Ebola quarantine success depended on assistance with daily needs, CDC report finds

Effectively monitoring people exposed to Ebola requires more than just checking symptoms. A quarantine plan also needs to help people keep up with work and school and pay for essentials like housing and food, a U.S. report concludes.

October 28, 2015

CDC pulls poster saying Ebola can spread through a sneeze

The ​U.S. ​​Centers for Disease Control on Thursday yanked a poster off its Web site explaining how Ebola can be spread by contaminated droplets — from a sneeze for example — a day after The Post reported on the frightening revelation.

October 28, 2015

Families wait in agony for word on Ebola patients

First the ring tone echoed outside the barbed-wire-topped walls of the Ebola clinic. Then came the wails of grief, as news spread that 31-year-old Rose Johnson was dead just days after she was brought here unconscious by relatives.

October 28, 2015

World's first malaria vaccine moves closer to use in Africa

The world's first malaria vaccine, made by GlaxoSmithKline, could be approved by international regulators for use in Africa from October after final trial data showed it offered partial protection for up to four years.

October 28, 2015

Study shows high-risk areas for Lyme disease growing

The geographic areas where Lyme disease is a bigger danger have grown dramatically, according to a new government study published Wednesday

October 28, 2015

US to begin human testing of Ebola vaccine next week

Federal researchers next week will start testing humans with an experimental vaccine to prevent the deadly Ebola virus

October 28, 2015

FDA says 'stands ready' to work with companies developing Ebola drugs

The worst Ebola outbreak in history is heaping new pressure on U.S. regulators to speed the development of treatments for the deadly virus, which has killed more than 700 people since February

October 28, 2015

Canada salmonella outbreak leaves 34 people sick after poultry contact

Canadian health authorities are investigating after 34 people became sick with salmonella infections after contact with live baby poultry, the country's Public Health Agency said on Monday.

October 28, 2015

Pace of new MERS infections in Saudi Arabia slows, first cases appear in Iran

The rate of infection of a deadly virus in Saudi Arabia has slowed since mid May and Monday was the first day free of new cases in six weeks, figures released by the kingdom's Health Ministry showed.

October 28, 2015

Doctors unsure why only certain Ebola patients bleed

One of Ebola's most notorious symptoms is bleeding from places like the nose and mouth, but such bleeding has only occurred in a minority of cases in the current outbreak