October 23, 2015 Online volunteers map uncharted Ebola zones to help save lives Donating to disasters used to mean writing a check to Oxfam or the Red Cross. These days in the Internet age, for the Ebola crisis, citizens from all over the world are donating their time by going online to build maps for relief workers. Call it crowd-sourced cartography that can save lives.
October 23, 2015 Florida high school cancels classes over widespread stomach virus A high school in the Tampa Bay, Florida area canceled school Friday due to an unusually high number of stomach virus cases, MyFoxTampaBay.com reported.
October 23, 2015 India battles to contain 'brain fever' as deaths reach almost 570 Almost 570 people in India have died after contracting encephalitis, commonly known as "brain fever", health authorities said on Friday, warning the death toll may rise with more people still at risk.
October 23, 2015 Ebola-infected American doctor and aid worker appear to be improving An American doctor infected with Ebola while working in Liberia indicated Friday he's getting stronger every day, and the husband of a second aid worker with the deadly virus said his wife also seems to be improving.
October 23, 2015 Device manufacturer sued again in 'superbug' outbreak at LA hospital A 76-year-old man infected with a drug-resistant "superbug" at a Los Angeles hospital has sued the manufacturer of a medical device that caused the illness in the fifth lawsuit related to the bacterial outbreak at the facility, his attorney said on Tuesday.
October 23, 2015 Enterovirus 68 probed in paralysis cases of 9 Colorado kids Health officials are investigating nine cases of muscle weakness or paralysis in Colorado children and whether the culprit might be a virus causing severe respiratory illness across the country.
October 23, 2015 WHO reports 50 new Ebola cases and 25 deaths in West Africa Fifty new cases of Ebola and 25 deaths have been reported in Sierra Leone, Liberia and Guinea since July 3, as the deadly virus continues to spread in families, the World Health Organization (WHO) said on Tuesday.
October 23, 2015 Plague in Madagascar has killed 40 out of 119 cases, WHO says An outbreak of the plague has killed 40 out of 119 confirmed cases in Madagascar since late August, the World Health Organization (WHO) said on Friday.
October 23, 2015 Scale of Guinea's Ebola epidemic unprecedented, aid agency says Guinea faces an Ebola epidemic on an unprecedented scale as it battles to contain confirmed cases now scattered across several locations that are far apart, medical charity Medecins Sans Frontieres said on Monday.
October 23, 2015 Confusion and fear of Ebola delayed treatment for some kids Nearly 100 children in the United States were suspected of having Ebola last year, and although none of them actually had the deadly disease, these kids sometimes experienced delays in care because medical staff were concerned about being exposed to Ebola, according to a new report.