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CDC releases revised Ebola gear guidelines 10/21/2014 04:34am • MIKE STOBBE Associated Press ATLANTA (AP) -- Federal health officials on Monday issued new guidelines to promote head-to-toe protection for health workers treating Ebola patients.Officials have been scrambling to come up with new advice for protective gear since two Dallas nurses became infected whi What Ebola Can Teach You About Investing 10/21/2014 12:00am • You've probably heard a lot about the disease that kills approximately 600,000 people in the United States every year, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. You've probably also heard more than a little about two other diseases that together kill more than 50,000 people annua Plumlee lifts Nets to 99-88 win over 76ers 10/20/2014 11:40pm • MICHAEL SCOTTO NEW YORK (AP) -- Mason Plumlee had 20 points and 17 rebounds to help the Brooklyn Nets beat the Philadelphia 76ers 99-88 on Monday night."That's the aggressiveness and toughness we need from him every night," coach Hollins said. "That's the expectation for him. Not to get 17 points, Ebola: Keeping patients alive as body fights back 10/20/2014 11:14pm • LAURAN NEERGAARD AP Medical Writer WASHINGTON (AP) -- People who shared an apartment with the country's first Ebola patient are emerging from quarantine healthy. And while Thomas Eric Duncan died and two U.S. nurses were infected caring for him, there are successes, too: A nurse infected in Spain ha Obama coalition-building again, this time on Ebola 10/20/2014 07:20pm • DARLENE SUPERVILLE Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) -- After rallying dozens of nations to join the fight against Islamic State militants, President Barack Obama is back in the coalition-building business -- this time to fight the Ebola outbreak in West Africa.Obama is working the phones with world Ebola: Africa's image takes a hit 10/20/2014 06:52pm • CHRISTOPHER TORCHIA Associated Press JOHANNESBURG (AP) -- In the United States, some parents fearful of deadly Ebola pulled children out of a school after the principal returned from Zambia, an African nation far from the area hit by the disease. In Geneva, a top U.N. official warned against anti-Af Lebanon imposes new measures against Ebola 10/20/2014 05:30pm • BEIRUT (AP) -- Lebanon is imposing new measures to prevent the Ebola virus from reaching the Middle Eastern nation, the health minister said Monday.Wael Abu Faour said Lebanon is more vulnerable than some other Arab countries because of the large Lebanese diaspora in Africa. Thousands of Lebanese li ACFD: Va. Hospital Center Refused to Admit Suspected Ebola Patient 10/20/2014 05:05pm • Virginia Hospital Center refused to admit the potential Ebola patient from the Pentagon on Friday, according to county officials, despite the hospital saying two weeks earlier that it was ready to handle such patients. Responding to an inquiry from ARLnow.com today, the Arlington County Fire Departm Journalist being treated for Ebola still improving 10/20/2014 04:28pm • OMAHA, Neb. (AP) -- The Nebraska doctors treating an American video journalist for Ebola say he could be released by the end of the week if tests show he's free of the deadly virus.Ashoka Mukpo (ah-SHOH'-kuh MUK'-poh) has been treated at the Nebraska Medical Center in Omaha since Oct. 6.He has been Rehydration was a key in ridding Nigeria of Ebola 10/20/2014 04:20pm • ABUJA, Nigeria (AP) -- Doctors who survived Ebola in Nigeria are crediting heavy doses of fluids with saving their lives.The World Health Organization today declared Nigeria to be free of Ebola -- a rare victory against the disease that is ravaging West Africa.The disease had come to Nigeria's bigge Kerry urges Asia to boost anti-Islamic State push 10/20/2014 02:34pm • MATTHEW LEE AP Diplomatic Writer JAKARTA, Indonesia (AP) -- U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry appealed Monday for Asian nations to step up their efforts to combat Islamic State extremists and the deadly Ebola virus.In Jakarta for the inauguration of Indonesia's new reformist president, Kerry took t Fire exposes illegal Chinese factories in Italy 10/20/2014 02:12pm • ERIKA KINETZ Associated Press PRATO, Italy (AP) -- The first thing the firefighters saw was the arm sticking out of the barred window on the second floor of the factory. Flames reached through the partially collapsed roof and a high column of smoke darkened the winter sky. This fire had been burning WTOP Town Hall on Ebola airs public concerns 10/20/2014 10:50am • WASHINGTON -- A town hall sponsored by WTOP on Monday morning featured three top experts in infectious diseases who said Americans should be aware, prepared and informed, but not panicked, over the presence of Ebola in the United States. Dr. Anthony Fauci, head of the National Institutes for He University knocks down tweet that Ebola airborne 10/20/2014 10:02am • The Associated Press University of Minnesota officials are knocking down a tweet claiming its researchers say Ebola is airborne.University spokeswoman Caroline Marin told the Star Tribune in Minneapolis that the university never made such a claim.In fact, the tweet refers to a commentary posted a m Ebola monitoring inconsistent as virus spread 10/20/2014 09:46am • MARTHA MENDOZA Associated Press DALLAS (AP) -- The top administrator in Dallas County rushed to Texas Health Presbyterian Hospital this week responding to urgent news: One of its nurses had caught Ebola from a patient. He quickly asked for the hospital's watch list to find out who else might be at r