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Reston-Area Hospitals Say They're Prepared for Ebola 10/16/2014 05:30pm • As more rigorous screenings for Ebola began at Dulles International Airport on Thursday, local hospitals said they’re ready to handle patients. Reston Hospital Center is giving health care workers gowns and goggles, as the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention recommends, officials to No Ebola in D.C., but hospitals still prepared 10/16/2014 04:49pm • WASHINGTON -- There are no confirmed cases of Ebola in the District, but the city's Health Department Director says more than 12 people with suspected cases have been isolated and watched in the city recently. Dr. Joxell Garcia says none turned out to actually have the virus. Garcia says city h Delta's 3Q profit falls on one-time items 10/16/2014 04:32pm • DAVID KOENIG AP Airlines Writer DALLAS (AP) -- Delta Air Lines Inc. said Thursday that third-quarter profit fell 74 percent on one-time costs such as retiring older planes. The results excluding those items beat expectations.Revenue rose 7 percent, but higher fuel and labor costs pushed expenses hig 1st Dallas nurse with Ebola to be sent to Maryland 10/16/2014 03:26pm • 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. DALLAS (AP) -- The first Dallas nurse to have contracted Ebola after treating an infected Liberian man is scheduled to be New US Ebola case a nurse who treated man in Texas 10/16/2014 03:26pm • 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. MATT SEDENSKY Associated Press DALLAS (AP) -- A dated yearbook picture of a smiling young woman has become the latest fac US officials defend Ebola response; nurse moved 10/16/2014 02:52pm • Ebola live blog: Follow our live blog for the latest developments, plus fact sheets and more on the Ebola outbreak. Related Stories Nurse with Ebola to be moved to NIH in Bethesda Hospitals near Dulles prepared for Ebola Dulles begins Ebola screening Ebola live blog JIM Nurse with Ebola to be moved to NIH in Bethesda 10/16/2014 02:31pm • WASHINGTON - The first person to contract Ebola in the U.S. is headed to the Washington D.C. area. Dr. Anthony Fauci, head of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, told a congressional hearing Thursday that nurse Nina Pham is being transferred from a Dallas hospital, where sh Stepped up Ebola screening starts at 4 US airports 10/16/2014 01:56pm • NEWARK, N.J. (AP) -- Customs and health officials at airports in Washington, Chicago, Atlanta and Newark, New Jersey, are scheduled to start taking the temperatures of passengers from three West African countries as part of a stepped up Ebola screening program.Federal health officials say the entry Nurse Infected With Ebola To Transfer To NIH In Bethesda 10/16/2014 01:05pm • One of two nurses who contracted Ebola in a Dallas hospital while treating a patient there will be transferred to an isolation unit on the NIH campus in Bethesda, NBC News reported Thursday. According to the Frederick News-Post, the nurse will arrive on Thursday night at Frederick Municipal Airport Ebola crisis puts pressure on human rights 10/16/2014 01:00pm • CHRISTOPHER TORCHIA Associated Press JOHANNESBURG (AP) -- Some doctors in countries hit hardest by the deadly Ebola disease decline to operate on pregnant women for fear the virus could spread. Governments face calls from frightened citizens to bar travel to and from afflicted nations. Meanwhile, th Nurses in safety gear got Ebola, why wouldn't you? 10/16/2014 12:24pm • How do you think U.S. officials have handled the Ebola situation? Post a comment in this story, comment on WTOP's Facebook Page or use #WTOP on Twitter. Anyone who traveled on Frontier Airlines Flight 1143 from Cleveland to Dallas-Fort Worth on Monday, Oct. 13 is urged to call 1-800-CDC-INF CDC: Nurse exposed to Ebola should not have flown 10/16/2014 11:26am • 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. MIKE STOBBE AP Medical Writer NEW YORK (AP) -- A top federal health official said Wednesday that a Texas nurse exposed to Plane isolated at Madrid airport for Ebola check 10/16/2014 11:18am • MADRID (AP) -- Authorities in Spain are dealing with a suspected Ebola case aboard an Air France plane that arrived today in Madrid after a flight from Paris.Officials say a passenger was reported to have a fever and shivers. The passenger had traveled from Nigeria. That individual was taken by ambu Dallas nurses cite sloppy conditions in Ebola care 10/16/2014 10:58am • 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 Associated Press DALLAS (AP) -- A Liberian Ebola patient was left in an open area of a Dallas emergency ro EU vows to beef up Ebola exit tests in West Africa 10/16/2014 09:40am • BRUSSELS (AP) -- European Union nations are promising to reinforce passenger screening for Ebola at the airports in the hardest-hit West African nations and coordinate a common approach for the deadly virus at EU entry points.EU health chief Tonio Borg said Thursday the World Health Organization and