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AP Photos: Training hospital workers for Ebola 10/17/2014 09:42am • CARLA K. JOHNSON AP Medical Writer CHICAGO (AP) -- With hospital workers increasingly in the spotlight of concern over the spread of the Ebola virus, a Chicago hospital held a training session Thursday for a team of medical professionals with expertise in intensive care and infection control.Rush Un Morning Notes 10/17/2014 08:25am • Bethesda’s “Thoroughly Mediocre” Restaurant Scene – Washingtonian Magazine food critic Todd Kliman weighed in on what’s missing from the Washington Post’s recent list of best restaurants. What’s not missing is Bethesda, which Kliman wrote has “mo Giants know defense must improve vs. Cowboys 10/17/2014 05:50am • JIM HAGUE Associated Press EAST RUTHERFORD, N.J. (AP) -- The New York Giants are very aware of one thing. They are facing one of the best teams in the NFC in the Dallas Cowboys on Sunday, posing an enormous challenge to a struggling defense.The Cowboys enter the game clicking on all cylinders. They Officials move to keep Dallas health workers home 10/17/2014 05:50am • JAMIE STENGLE Associated Press DALLAS (AP) -- Texas officials moved for the first time Thursday to force health care workers who had contact with a dying Ebola patient to stay home, reversing course after a nurse later diagnosed with the disease flew across the Midwest and deepened anxiety about whe Spain tests 4 with fever for Ebola, isolates jet 10/17/2014 05:06am • JORGE SAINZ Associated Press MADRID (AP) -- Four people with fever considered at risk for Ebola were being tested Thursday in Spain for the virus, including one who arrived on an Air France jet that was isolated at Madrid's airport as a precaution, officials said.Other passengers were allowed to dis Airline notifying more passengers of Ebola 10/17/2014 04:46am • DAVID KOENIG AP Airlines Writer DALLAS (AP) -- Frontier Airlines is expanding the circle of passengers being notified that they flew with a nurse who later tested positive for Ebola, or flew on a later flight using the same plane.The airline said that it would contact passengers on seven flights, no Iowa's Braley, Ernst duel over abortion in debate 10/17/2014 03:56am • THOMAS BEAUMONT Associated Press SIOUX CITY, Iowa (AP) -- Republican candidate Joni Ernst defended her opposition to abortion rights during Thursday's final debate between her and Iowa Democrat Bruce Braley in their neck-and-neck race for a U.S. Senate seat, but she said for the first time that she UN: Ebola death toll rising to 4,500 this week 10/17/2014 03:56am • JOHN HEILPRIN Associated Press GENEVA (AP) -- The death toll from Ebola will rise this week to more than 4,500 people from the 9,000 infected and the outbreak is still out of control in three West African nations, a top official with the U.N. health agency said Thursday.Dr. Isabelle Nuttall, directo Existing protocols might not be enough for Ebola 10/17/2014 12:08am • Editor's Note: WTOP is hosting a town hall on Ebola at the Newseum in D.C. on Oct. 20. Leading physicians will be taking questions from the community. Register for tickets. MARTHA MENDOZA AP National Writer DALLAS (AP) -- As Thomas Eric Duncan's health deteriorated, nurses Amber Joy Vinson and Concern over spread of Ebola puts spotlight on CDC 10/17/2014 12:04am • LINDSEY TANNER AP Medical Writer With concern growing about Ebola in the United States, the CDC is suddenly in the spotlight. Here's why: The federal Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is the government agency in charge of protecting the public's health.While only two cases of Ebola are know What to Feed a Child With a Stomach Bug 10/17/2014 12:00am • It's one of the worst experiences I've had as a parent: watching one of my youngsters suffer through a stomach virus. His or her little body, doubled over in pain, and exhibiting symptoms including vomiting, diarrhea, stomach pain, chills, fatigue and dehydration. There's also often a loss of appet Jamaica, Guyana, Trinidad impose Ebola travel bans 10/16/2014 08:40pm • DAVID McFADDEN Associated Press KINGSTON, Jamaica (AP) -- Jamaica, Guyana and Trinidad & Tobago on Thursday became the latest countries in the Western Hemisphere to restrict travelers from West African nations struggling with an epidemic of the Ebola virus.The announcements came a day after Colombia UN chief: Fund to fight Ebola has $100,000 in bank 10/16/2014 08:00pm • EDITH M. LEDERER Associated Press UNITED NATIONS (AP) -- Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon said Thursday that a trust fund he launched to provide fast and flexible funding for the fight against Ebola has only $100,000 in the bank.U.N. spokesman Stephane Dujarric said the trust fund is part of a nearly $ APNewsBreak: Official being monitored for Ebola 10/16/2014 06:30pm • MARTHA MENDOZA AP National Writer DALLAS (AP) -- Dallas County's top public health epidemiologist confirmed Thursday that she spent time at Ebola patient Thomas Eric Duncan's bedside and that she is among those potentially exposed to the virus.Dr. Wendy Chung has remained on the front lines of the g Ebola comes to last safe district in Sierra Leone 10/16/2014 06:20pm • CLARENCE ROY-MACAULAY Associated Press FREETOWN, Sierra Leone (AP) -- The deadly Ebola virus has infected two people in what was the last untouched district in Sierra Leone, the government said Thursday, a setback in efforts to stop the spread of the disease in one of the hardest-hit countries.The E