One U.S. Coast Guard sector says it will contact ships that have recently been to Ebola-affected countries to ask whether passengers have symptoms of the virus before they are allowed into port.
Even though St. Patrick Hospital has an officially approved facility for handling patients with the Ebola virus, Marshall Bloom with Rocky Mountain Labs in Hamilton said this week that all well-equipped medical facilities can safely handle these highly contagious diseases, including Missoula Community Medical Center.
Scientists with the Rocky Mountain Laboratories have been studying the Ebola virus for several years, working with other facilities around the world to develop effective treatments for the virulent disease.
(CNN) - A patient being treated at a Dallas, Texas, hospital is the first person diagnosed with Ebola in the United States, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention announced Tuesday.
Several other Americans were diagnosed in West Africa and then brought to the United States for treatment...
The president of a missionary group says a third American sickened with the Ebola virus decided to return to Liberia after the other two people became ill.
The Ebola outbreak in West Africa is a major international health crisis, but here at home in the U.S. you don't really have much to worry about. Here's why.