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Crew disinfects home where Ebola patient stayed 10/04/2014 02:18am • DAVID WARREN Associated Press DALLAS (AP) -- A hazardous-materials crew on Friday decontaminated the Texas apartment where an Ebola patient was staying when he got sick, while public-health officials cut by half the number of people being monitored for any symptoms of the deadly disease.Hours later, Hazardous material crew cleans quarantined Dallas apartment 10/03/2014 05:30pm • DALLAS (AP) -- Health care officials in Texas are making progress tracking down people who had direct or indirect contact with a Liberian man diagnosed with the Ebola.The number of people is now 50, down from 100. All are being monitored and none have shown any symptoms of exposure to the often dead Texas officials narrow group monitored for Ebola 10/03/2014 03:10pm • DALLAS (AP) -- Health officials in Texas say they've narrowed their monitoring to a group of about 50 people who may have had some level of exposure to the Ebola patient in Dallas.Texas Health Commissioner David Lakey said Friday that all are meeting with health workers and having their temperatures Crew arrives to clean quarantined Texas apartment 10/03/2014 02:50pm • DALLAS (AP) -- A hazardous-materials crew is recovering items from a Dallas apartment where a Liberian man infected with Ebola had stayed.The crew is expected to remove items including towels and bed sheets used by the patient, who is being treated at an isolation unit at a Dallas hospital. Private Home where Ebola patient stayed awaits cleaning 10/03/2014 12:38pm • DALLAS (AP) -- A hazardous-materials crew is expected to return today to a Texas apartment where the first man diagnosed with Ebola in the United States had stayed.A city spokeswoman says Dallas officials are waiting for a permit to allow hazardous material taken from the home to be transported alon No Ebola case at Shady Grove Adventist Hospital 10/03/2014 11:59am • UPDATE: 9:45 p.m., Friday, Oct. 3, 2014 WASHINGTON -- After extensive tests, monitoring and consultations with infectious disease experts, the Shady Grove Adventist Hospital medical team has determined that a patient at the facility has malaria and does not have Ebola. The hospital released a st New polio cases in Pakistan edge closer to record 10/03/2014 09:10am • ISLAMABAD (AP) -- A senior Pakistani health official says seven new polio cases have been registered in the country, raising the number of those affected by the disease this year to 194 and edging closer to the nation's record number of 199 in 2001.Pakistan is one of only three countries where polio NBC cameraman tests positive for Ebola in Liberia 10/03/2014 09:10am • DAVID BAUDER AP Television Writer NEW YORK (AP) -- An American cameraman helping to cover the Ebola outbreak in Liberia for NBC News has tested positive for the virus and will be flown back to the United States for treatment.NBC News President Deborah Turness said Thursday the rest of the NBC News c Local doctors watching for Ebola symptoms 10/03/2014 07:32am • WASHINGTON -- Doctors and other health care providers across Maryland and Virginia are being reminded to stay vigilant and keep a close eye out for symptoms of Ebola. Symptoms, such as headache and fever, should raise red flags, especially if the patient recently traveled to a high-risk region. Questions and answers about the US Ebola case 10/03/2014 03:28am • LAURAN NEERGAARD AP Medical Writer WASHINGTON (AP) -- U.S. health officials have warned for months that someone infected with Ebola could unknowingly carry the virus to this country. Now it has happened: A traveler in a Dallas hospital became the first patient diagnosed in the U.S.Texas health offic Serena Williams out of China Open with injury 10/03/2014 02:34am • JUSTIN BERGMAN Associated Press BEIJING (AP) -- Serena Williams pulled out of the China Open with a left knee injury on Friday, raising doubts about whether she'll be fit enough to defend her title at the WTA Finals in Singapore later this month.Playing in obvious pain at times and with strapping on Ebola worries keep some Dallas students home 10/03/2014 01:20am • NOMAAN MERCHANT Associated Press DALLAS (AP) -- Worries over Ebola kept some Dallas schoolchildren home Thursday after school officials identified five students who may have come into contact with the first person in the U.S. to be diagnosed with the virus.Attendance is down about 10 percent at five Family that hosted Ebola patient confined to home 10/03/2014 12:28am • NOMAAN MERCHANT Associated Press DALLAS (AP) -- Four members of a family the U.S. Ebola patient was staying with were confined to their Texas home under armed guard Thursday as the circle of people possibly exposed to the virus widened, while Liberian authorities said they would prosecute the man fo Hospital: Ebola patient denied he had been exposed 10/02/2014 11:38pm • DALLAS (AP) -- A Dallas hospital says a man who has Ebola initially told an emergency room nurse that he had no contact with anyone who was ill when he was in Liberia.Texas Health Presbyterian Hospital discharged Thomas Eric Duncan after that Sept. 25 visit. He returned two days later and was diagno Liberian ambassador regrets first US case 10/02/2014 09:30pm • CHARLOTTE, N.C. (AP) -- Liberia's ambassador to the United States says it is "unfortunate" that a visitor from his country has brought Ebola to the U.S.In a joint appearance with the Rev. Franklin Graham, Ambassador Jeremiah Sulunteh (SOO'-lun-tay) expressed hope that with American technology and co