NBC freelance cameraman Ashoka Mukpo, who contracted Ebola while working in West Africa, is free of the virus and will leave the Nebraska Medical Center on Wednesday, the hospital said. Mukpo arrived in the United States on Oct. 6 for treatment. He is the second patient to be successfully treated for Ebola at the Nebraska…
President Barack Obama has asked former White House official Ron Klain to coordinate the U.S. government’s response to the Ebola outbreak, an administration official said on Friday. Klain, a former chief of staff to Vice President Joe Biden, will report to homeland security adviser Lisa Monaco and national security adviser Susan Rice, the official said….
(Reuters) – President Barack Obama has asked former White House official Ron Klain to coordinate the U.S. government’s response to the Ebola outbreak, an administration official said on Friday. Klain will report to homeland security adviser Lisa Monaco and national security adviser Susan Rice, the official said. “Klain, an attorney, comes to the job with…
Israel is holding an Ebola identification training exercise at Ben Gurion Airport. The exercise Friday will simulate the arrival of a passenger with Ebola, including initial questioning as well as evacuation and hospital treatment. On Thursday night, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu held additional consultations to evaluate the readiness of state agencies to fight Ebola….
Facebook Inc Chief Executive Mark Zuckerberg said on Tuesday he and his wife, Priscilla Chan, would donate $25 million to the Centers for Disease Control Foundation to fight Ebola. “We need to get Ebola under control in the near term so that it doesn’t spread further and become a long-term global health crisis that we…
Israel will screen travelers from Western African countries in order to prevent the Ebola virus from entering the country. Travelers arriving from Sierra Leone, Guinea, and Liberia, the countries currently most affected by the virus, will be questioned at all border crossings – land, sea and air, according to a statement issued Sunday by the…
An Ebola-stricken NBC photographer with Jewish roots has arrived in the U.S. for treatment. A private plane carrying Ashoka Mukpo, a freelance cameraman for who contracted Ebola in Liberia, landed in Omaha en route to the Nebraska Medical Center, NBC reported. The plane was met by an ambulance manned by worked in yellow protective suits,…
MASHAV, Israel’s Agency for International Development Cooperation, will send three mobile emergency clinics to areas in western Africa to help prevent the spread of the Ebola virus. A staff of Israeli medical experts will be attached to each clinic, and they will train the local health care workers in the operation of the clinic and…
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