NIH Releases Patient Exposed To Ebola – The NIH Clinical Center on Tuesday released a man who was flown to the U.S. from Sierra Leone with a high-risk exposure to Ebola. The man suffered a needle stick injury and was put in isolation at NIH’s Bethesda campus because of a brief period of fever. NIH said the fever passed and was later determined not to be related to infection with the Ebola virus. [NIH]
Worst Intersections, Revisited – County planners will discuss the most congested county intersections and other transportation trends Thursday in a session of the Council’s Transportation Committee. Bethesda had two of the top three most congested intersections according to the Planning Department report and No. 6 was the intersection of East-West Highway and Connecticut Avenue. [Montgomery County Council]
Council Keeps Bag Tax Rollback Alive – A bill that would effectively make the county’s 5-cent bag tax applicable only in grocery stores is still on the table and a resolution passed Tuesday will give the Council until July 2015 to vote on it. Councilmember Roger Berliner has argued the bag tax’s application to department and clothing stores has turned people off to the environmental protection purpose of the measure. The county’s Department of Environmental Protection has asked for more time to properly evaluate the bill’s effect. [The Gazette]
MoCo Will No Longer Honor ICE Detainers – County Executive Isiah Leggett on Tuesday said that without probable cause, Montgomery County will no longer detain prisoners beyond their scheduled release dates at the request of federal officials from Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE). ICE typically asks localities to hold a prisoner before it can take custody and start deportation proceedings. [Washington Post]
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