A Spanish nursing assistant contracted the Ebola virus after dealing with 2 patients who had the virus, making it the first transmission outside West Africa.
After the Mississippi baby, another child has undergone HIV rebound after previously being declared free of the virus. The baby showed detectable levels of HIV just a few days after the termination of anti-retroviral therapy.
Ebola survivor, Dr. Richard Sacra, is now being held in isolation at the UMass Memorial Medical Center due to suspected respiratory infection. Doctors say that it is unlikely that this is a recurrent case of the Ebola virus.
A decontamination team was sent to decontaminate the apartment where Ebola patient Thomas Eric Duncan stayed in when he got sick. Members of the family that he stayed with are also now being held in isolation.
Hospital officials from the Dallas hospital where the first US patient diagnosed with the Ebola virus have released a statement saying that the patient is now in critical condition.