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Uganda confirms Marburg fever recently killed man 10/06/2014 08:00am • RODNEY MUHUMUZA Associated Press KAMPALA, Uganda (AP) -- A Ugandan health worker recently died of Marburg, a highly infectious disease that manifests as a viral hemorrhagic fever, Uganda's Ministry of Health confirmed Monday as health workers moved to quarantine a total of 80 people who had been in Nurses don't think hospitals prepared for Ebola, survey finds 10/06/2014 07:56am • WASHINGTON -- A national survey of the nation's nurses shows they don't think hospitals are prepared to handle the Ebola virus. Eighty percent of nurses say their hospitals haven't communicated any policy for handling potential Ebola admissions, according to the nation's largest nurses' union Hospital: Ebola virus survivor not infected again 10/06/2014 01:42am • WORCESTER, Mass. (AP) -- A Massachusetts doctor who is back in the hospital after he was successfully treated for the Ebola virus last month isn't infected again with it, hospital officials said Sunday.UMass Memorial Medical Center said test results for Dr. Rick Sacra came back negative for the viru Airports, airlines and Ebola: 5 things to know 10/06/2014 12:42am • DAVID KOENIG AP Airlines Writer DALLAS (AP) -- The news that a man flew from Liberia to the U.S. after exposure to Ebola, and wound up in a hospital isolation ward, has led to calls for tougher measures to protect Americans, such as a ban on flights from countries hit by the epidemic.Federal health 5th American with Ebola returning from Liberia 10/06/2014 12:37am • JOSH FUNK Associated Press OMAHA, Neb. (AP) -- An American photojournalist who contracted Ebola while working in West Africa began his journey home for treatment Sunday, while a man who recently arrived in Dallas from Liberia remained in critical condition with the disease.Ashoka Mukpo, 33, will be Journalist with Ebola on way to Nebraska hospital 10/05/2014 07:55pm • OMAHA, Neb. (AP) -- An American photojournalist who contracted the deadly Ebola virus while working in West Africa has begun his journey home for treatment.Ashoka Mukpo will be the second Ebola patient to be treated at the Nebraska Medical Center's specialized isolation unit. Hospital officials said Push to allow gay men to be able to donate blood 10/05/2014 07:45pm • WASHINGTON -- Gay and bisexual men can't donate blood in the United States, under regulations imposed at the beginning of the AIDS crisis. But times have changed since the ban was put into place, and there is now a push to open the doors of blood banks to these potential donors. The ban dates b Hospital: Dallas Ebola patient critical 10/05/2014 12:34pm • JAMIE STENGLE Associated Press DALLAS (AP) -- After hospital officials on Saturday said the condition of the lone Ebola patient diagnosed in the U.S. has worsened, the woman he came to Texas to visit said she is praying for his recovery.Louise Troh said that she was not aware until a reporter told h Many sick in US Ebola patient's Liberia hometown 10/05/2014 07:54am • KRISTA LARSON Associated Press MONROVIA, Liberia (AP) -- Thomas Eric Duncan rushed to help his 19-year-old neighbor when she began convulsing days after complaining of stomach pain. Everyone assumed her illness was related to her being seven months pregnant.When no ambulance came, Duncan, Marthalene Doctor successfully treated for Ebola hospitalized 10/05/2014 05:40am • WORCESTER, Mass. (AP) -- A Massachusetts doctor and missionary who was successfully treated for Ebola he contracted in Africa is back in the hospital with what appears to be a respiratory infection, but doctors don't suspect a recurrence of the virus.UMass Memorial Medical Center said in a statement Pakistan detects record number of polio cases 10/04/2014 09:20pm • MUNIR AHMED Associated Press ISLAMABAD (AP) -- Pakistan has detected a record number polio case already this year, a senior government official said Saturday, as militants target vaccination teams and accuse doctors of being spies and sterilizing boys.With the confirmation of polio virus among eight Health officials work to contain Ebola virus in US 10/04/2014 02:46pm • LAURAN NEERGAARD AP Medical Writer WASHINGTON (AP) -- Texas health officials have confined four people to their home, under guard, after they had close contact with an Ebola patient hospitalized in Dallas, as disease detectives work to make sure the deadly virus doesn't spread in the U.S. Five thing Muslims celebrate Eid as hajj pilgrimage nears end 10/04/2014 02:32pm • MOKHTAR SHEHATA Associated Press MINA, Saudi Arabia (AP) -- Muslims around the world celebrated the start of Islam's biggest holiday on Saturday as more than 2 million pilgrims took part in one of the final rites of the annual hajj pilgrimage in Saudi Arabia.Eid al-Adha, or Feast of Sacrifice, comme Questions and answers about Ebola 10/04/2014 01:58pm • WASHINGTON -- The Ebola crisis in Africa and the U.S. cases that have occurred have raised a number of questions. WTOP's Answer Desk is answering some questions you may have. How easy would it be for you to get Ebola if someone near you has it? "The Ebola virus is not easily spread like a col New type of clinic eyed to help stop Ebola 10/04/2014 02:24am • MARIA CHENG Associated Press LONDON (AP) -- In the face of an Ebola outbreak unlike any other seen before, officials are turning to unprecedented measures: makeshift clinics that will offer little or no care.At a one-day conference in London on Thursday, Britain and Sierra Leone appealed for more he