Ebola Precaution

Officials are investigating the death of a Fort Hood soldier who was found outside an off-base apartment after he returned from deployment in West Africa. Tests for Ebola given as a precaution came back negative.

An Indian national who was cured of Ebola in Liberia is quarantined at the Delhi airport after traces of the virus were found in his samples. The 26-year-old man, who arrived in India on November 10, has no symptoms of the disease but is in isolation as precaution, Health Minister JP Nadda has said.

US troops returning from West Africa are being placed under isolation at a base in Italy as a precaution to prevent the potential spread of the Ebola virus, the Pentagon said on Monday.

The Pentagon on Friday closed off a parking lot and one entrance as a precaution after a woman, who recently returned from Africa, vomited outside the building, prompting fears of Ebola.

A man has been hospitalised in Poland pending blood tests on whether he has the Ebola virus, but he had not travelled to Africa and the tests were being conducted as a precaution only, a health official said.

Public hospitals in New York City are concerned enough about Ebola that they've secretly been sending actors with mock symptoms into emergency rooms to test how good the triage staff is at identifying and isolating possible cases.

In the last 17 days, over 15,000 people have been screened at the country's airports for the Ebola virus. The Bombay High Court has now asked the Centre and the Maharashtra government what steps are being taken to prevent the entry and spread of the virus in India.

A Spanish charity announced Monday a third member of staff at its hospital in Liberia has died of Ebola, saying it fears a lack of basic safety precautions let the virus spread through its team.

Nurses taking nervous passengers' temperatures at airports and isolation wards standing eerily empty waiting to receive anyone showing symptoms - the world was already on the lookout for Ebola victims before the WHO issued a global alert earlier today.

The deadly Ebola virus can spread like a forest fire, US health authorities have said, urging travellers to West Africa to take extra precautions amid the largest outbreak in history.

Officials are investigating the death of a Fort Hood soldier who was found outside an off-base apartment after he returned from deployment in West Africa. Tests for Ebola given as a precaution came back negative.

An Indian national who was cured of Ebola in Liberia is quarantined at the Delhi airport after traces of the virus were found in his samples. The 26-year-old man, who arrived in India on November 10, has no symptoms of the disease but is in isolation as precaution, Health Minister JP Nadda has said.

US troops returning from West Africa are being placed under isolation at a base in Italy as a precaution to prevent the potential spread of the Ebola virus, the Pentagon said on Monday.

The Pentagon on Friday closed off a parking lot and one entrance as a precaution after a woman, who recently returned from Africa, vomited outside the building, prompting fears of Ebola.

A man has been hospitalised in Poland pending blood tests on whether he has the Ebola virus, but he had not travelled to Africa and the tests were being conducted as a precaution only, a health official said.

Public hospitals in New York City are concerned enough about Ebola that they've secretly been sending actors with mock symptoms into emergency rooms to test how good the triage staff is at identifying and isolating possible cases.

In the last 17 days, over 15,000 people have been screened at the country's airports for the Ebola virus. The Bombay High Court has now asked the Centre and the Maharashtra government what steps are being taken to prevent the entry and spread of the virus in India.

A Spanish charity announced Monday a third member of staff at its hospital in Liberia has died of Ebola, saying it fears a lack of basic safety precautions let the virus spread through its team.

Nurses taking nervous passengers' temperatures at airports and isolation wards standing eerily empty waiting to receive anyone showing symptoms - the world was already on the lookout for Ebola victims before the WHO issued a global alert earlier today.

The deadly Ebola virus can spread like a forest fire, US health authorities have said, urging travellers to West Africa to take extra precautions amid the largest outbreak in history.