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Ebola patient Amber Vinson arrived by ambulance at Emory University Hospital on Oct. 15. Now healthy, Vinson was discharged from the hospital Tuesday.

Emory Hospital Shares Lessons Learned On Ebola Care

11:56pm October 29, 2014

by Jim Burress

The same Atlanta hospital that treated the first U.S. Ebola patient in August discharged its fourth patient Tuesday. All survived. Patients in isolation need extra emotional support, the team says.

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Members of a cleaning crew clear the New York apartment of Dr. Craig Spencer, who has been diagnosed with Ebola, on Friday.

CDC Chief Announces New Shift In Ebola Protocols

6:06pm October 27, 2014

by Bill Chappell

The new protocol announced by Dr. Tom Frieden on Monday stops short of the mandatory 21-day quarantines imposed by some states. Instead, it relies on individual assessment and close monitoring.

Nurse Criticizes Quarantine After Negative Ebola Test, Hires Lawyer

4:05pm October 26, 2014

by Bill Chappell

Kaci Hickox says she doesn't have a fever; a preliminary blood test came back negative for Ebola. She reportedly hired a civil rights attorney to work for her release Sunday.

Dallas nurse Nina Pham speaks at a press conference after she was confirmed free of Ebola and released from a National Institutes of Health facility on Friday.

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Was CDC Too Quick To Blame Dallas Nurses In Care Of Ebola Patient?

6:59pm October 24, 2014

by Wade Goodwyn

It was initially implied that nurses made many of the errors in the handling of Ebola patient Thomas Eric Duncan. Further scrutiny shows they were not at fault.

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CDC Announces New Guidelines For Health Care Workers Treating Ebola Patients

7:55pm October 20, 2014

by Eyder Peralta

The new guidelines call for a site supervisor, who makes sure healthcare workers put on and remove their personal protective equipment correctly.

At a CDC training session for clinicians headed to West Africa, a medical worker practices sanitizing hands after drawing blood from a mannequin portraying an Ebola patient.

Lessons From Ebola School: How To Draw Blood, Wipe Up Vomit

3:16pm October 16, 2014

by Nurith Aizenman

Think of the routine jobs health workers do in a hospital: Sticking a needle in a patient's arm. Cleaning up vomit. Escorting a patient to a bed. Now imagine doing those tasks for someone with Ebola.

Dr. Kent Brantly was treated for Ebola at Emory University Hospital after becoming infected at the Monrovia hospital where he worked.

Ebola Evacuees: Who Are They, Where'd They Go, How'd They Fare?

11:40am October 16, 2014

by Nsikan Akpan

They caught the virus. Or had contact with a patient that put them at high risk. And they were flown out of West Africa for treatment — at a cost as high as $200,000 per person.

The entrance to the emergency room at Texas Health Presbyterian Hospital Dallas, where Thomas Eric Duncan was treated before he died from Ebola a week ago. Two health care workers who treated Duncan have tested positive for the disease.

CDC: Second Dallas Nurse 'Should Not Have Traveled'

5:35am October 16, 2014

by Scott Neuman

Amber Vinson, who treated Thomas Eric Duncan at a Dallas hospital and has tested positive for Ebola, was on a commercial flight from Cleveland to Dallas a day before reporting symptoms.

A plane arrives at New York's John F. Kennedy International Airport. Since Ebola screenings began Saturday, none of the 91 passengers identified as having an increased risk of an Ebola infection was found to be sick, the CDC says.

Ebola Screening At JFK Airport Flagged 91 Travelers; None Had Virus

3:15pm October 13, 2014

by Bill Chappell

In the wake of the first case of Ebola being contracted in the U.S., CDC director Dr. Tom Frieden discusses plans to stop the disease and apologizes for an implication some saw in his remarks Sunday.

Passengers from three West African countries will face screening for Ebola symptoms when they arrive at John F. Kennedy International Airport in New York. Travelers are seen here at a JFK checkpoint earlier this week. Four other airports will begin screen

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Ebola Deaths Top 4,000; Screening Begins At New York's JFK Airport

2:11pm October 11, 2014

by Bill Chappell

The screening procedure will include passengers having their temperature taken with non-contact thermometers and answering questions to determine their potential exposure.