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  • 21-day Quarantine For Ebola Too Short, Study Says

  • Oct 22, 2014 06:49 AM EDT
  • Since the outbreak of Ebola last March, one of the precepts to minimize the spread of the virus was the 21-day quarantine imposed on suspected people to have the virus. A new study says it’s too short.
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  • Nose Cells Help Paralyzed Man Walk Again

  • Oct 21, 2014 11:02 AM EDT
  • A medical breakthrough involving the transplantation of specialized nose cells into damaged spinal cord tissues has helped a man who have been paralyzed from the chest down for over three years to walk again.
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  • WHO Forecast: 10,000 New Ebola Cases Weekly

  • Oct 21, 2014 10:17 AM EDT
  • Officials from the World Health Organization have released a disease forecast for the Ebola outbreak saying that if the crisis continues on its current path, there could be as many as 10,000 new cases of the disease that develops every week by December.
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  • Turkish Man Dies Of MERS Virus

  • Oct 20, 2014 11:47 PM EDT
  • A Turkish worker who was working in Saudi Arabia contracted the MERS virus and went back to Turkey to receive treatment. After remaining in intensive care for several days, the patient succumbed to his symptoms to be the first MERS-related death in the country
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  • Possible US Ebola Patient is on Caribbean Cruise

  • Oct 20, 2014 11:26 PM EDT
  • A United States health worker go was handling fluids from deceased Ebola patient, Thomas Eric Duncan, was tracked down by US State officials on a Caribbean cruise. The ship has now been ordered to turn back and bring the patient home to undergo proper quaranti…
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