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When You're Put in Hospital Isolation 09/30/2014 12:00am • A respiratory infection has you feverish, coughing and wheezing -- severely enough to put you in the hospital. You're placed in a private room, which is fine. As sick as you feel, you only vaguely notice that the nurse checking your vital signs is talking through a mask and face shield. The doctor l Dallas hospital monitoring patient for Ebola 09/29/2014 11:40pm • DALLAS (AP) -- A patient in a Dallas hospital is showing signs of the Ebola virus and is being kept in strict isolation with test results pending, hospital officials said Monday.Texas Health Presbyterian Hospital in Dallas said in a statement Monday that the patient's symptoms and recent travel indi Virus probed in paralysis cases in 9 Colorado kids 09/29/2014 06:30pm • MIKE STOBBE AP Medical Writer NEW YORK (AP) -- Health officials are investigating nine cases of muscle weakness or paralysis in Colorado children and whether the culprit might be a virus causing severe respiratory illness across the country.The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention on Friday se Australia won't send Ebola doctors to West Africa 09/29/2014 01:52am • CANBERRA, Australia (AP) -- Australia on Monday ruled out sending doctors to West Africa to help fight the Ebola outbreak there because of logistical problems in repatriating any Australian who became infected with the deadly virus.Medecins Sans Frontieres, also known as Doctors Without Borders, as Mosquito-borne virus disrupting life in Jamaica 09/29/2014 12:00am • DAVID McFADDEN Associated Press KINGSTON, Jamaica (AP) -- Jamaica's health minister said Sunday that the government is doing all it can to combat a newly arrived mosquito-borne virus that is increasingly disrupting life and cutting productivity on the Caribbean island.In a national address carried o NIH to treat US doctor exposed to Ebola virus 09/28/2014 04:46am • LAURAN NEERGAARD AP Medical Writer WASHINGTON (AP) -- The National Institutes of Health is preparing to care for an American doctor who was exposed to the Ebola virus while volunteering in Sierra Leone.Out of what the agency called "an abundance of caution," the physician is expected to be admitted New mosquito-borne virus spreads in Latin America 09/27/2014 04:42pm • EZEQUIEL ABIU LOPEZ Associated Press SANTO DOMINGO, Dominican Republic (AP) -- An excruciating mosquito-borne illness that arrived less than a year ago in the Americas is raging across the region, leaping from the Caribbean to the Central and South American mainland, and infecting more than 1 millio NIH to admit patient exposed to Ebola 09/27/2014 03:19pm • WASHINGTON -- The National Institutes of Health (NIH) expects to admit a patient who has been exposed to the Ebola virus to its Clinical Center in the coming days. The patient is an American physician who was volunteering services in an Ebola treatment unit in Sierra Leone, according to an NIH Va. records 1st 2014 case of West Nile in horse 09/27/2014 10:10am • RICHMOND, Va. (AP) -- Virginia officials are reporting the state's first 2014 case of West Nile virus in a horse.The Virginia Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services said Friday that the 8-year-old paint gelding from Augusta County had not been vaccinated for the mosquito-borne disease.Mosqu Ivory Coast lifts Ebola flight restrictions 09/26/2014 07:03pm • GREGORY KATZ Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) -- Ivory Coast President Alassane Ouattara said Friday his country will lift the controversial suspension of flights to countries stricken by the Ebola virus to show solidarity with the nations affected by the lethal outbreak.He said the initial decision t Rare children's respiratory virus making presence known 09/26/2014 05:34pm • WASHINGTON -- A rare respiratory virus that primarily affects kids is making its presence known in the region. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention says cases of enterovirus D68 have now been confirmed in 38 states -- including Virginia, Maryland and the District of Columbia, which is Omaha hospital workers fired over Ebola privacy 09/26/2014 05:29pm • MARGERY A. BECK Associated Press OMAHA, Neb. (AP) -- The Nebraska hospital that treated an American aid worker infected with Ebola has fired two workers accused of violating the man's privacy by looking at his medical file.In a written statement Friday, the Nebraska Medical Center in Omaha said an a D.C. church lends help to fight against Ebola 09/26/2014 04:07pm • WASHINGTON - As the U.S. prepares to send aid and troops to help fight the Ebola virus in West Africa, churches in the D.C. metro area are lending their support - - and they're asking for the public's help. The World Health Organization says the outbreak will likely get worse before it gets be Obama urges world to do more to tackle Ebola 09/26/2014 03:34am • JULIE PACE AP White House Correspondent UNITED NATIONS (AP) -- President Barack Obama, in a sober assessment of international efforts to stem a deadly Ebola outbreak, warned a high-level United Nations gathering Thursday that there is a "significant gap" between what's been offered so far and what i 10 Things to Know for Friday 09/25/2014 09:09pm • The Associated Press Your daily look at late-breaking news, upcoming events and the stories that will be talked about Friday:1. HOLDER ANNOUNCES RESIGNATIONThe attorney general, one of the most liberal voices in the Obama administration, says he'll remain at the Justice Department until his success