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Malta rejects ship with suspected Ebola case 09/19/2014 12:10pm • VALLETTA, Malta (AP) -- Malta has refused entry to a cargo ship with a Filippino on board who was showing symptoms of Ebola, citing fears the virus might spread on the Mediterranean island.Prime Minister Joseph Muscat said Malta was legally and morally right to refuse to let the Hong Kong-registered French medic getting experimental Ebola treatment 09/19/2014 11:20am • PARIS (AP) -- Authorities say a French volunteer nurse infected with the Ebola virus is receiving experimental drugs.The nurse, who worked with Doctors Without Borders in Liberia, was transferred to France early Friday and is being treated in the Begin hospital in Saint-Mande near Paris. She was the Ebola survivor: No time to waste as Obama ups aid 09/19/2014 11:14am • LAURAN NEERGAARD Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) -- An American doctor who survived Ebola said there's no time to waste as President Barack Obama outlined his plan to ramp up the U.S. response to the epidemic in West Africa."We can't afford to wait months, or even weeks, to take action, to put peop Guinea: 8 people killed on Ebola awareness trip 09/19/2014 11:10am • BOUBACAR DIALLO Associated Press CONAKRY, Guinea (AP) -- The team of health officials accompanied by journalists came to the village to educate people about how to avoid contracting Ebola. Instead, a group of local residents turned on their would-be benefactors, attacking them with knives and rocks Sierra Leone to shut down for 3 days to slow Ebola 09/19/2014 04:56am • CLARENCE ROY-MACAULAY Associated Press FREETOWN, Sierra Leone (AP) -- In a desperate bid to slow West Africa's accelerating Ebola outbreak, Sierra Leone ordered its 6 million people confined to their homes for three days starting Friday while volunteers conduct a house-to-house search for victims in UN calls Ebola a threat to international peace 09/19/2014 01:20am • EDITH M. LEDERER Associated Press UNITED NATIONS (AP) -- The U.N. Security Council called the Ebola outbreak in Africa "a threat to international peace and security" Thursday and urged the world to provide health experts, field hospitals and medical supplies to combat the rapidly accelerating and de US scientist: Ebola unlikely to become airborne 09/18/2014 04:40pm • LAURAN NEERGAARD AP Medical Writer WASHINGTON (AP) -- It's incredibly unlikely that Ebola would mutate to spread through the air, and the best way to make sure it doesn't is to stop the epidemic, a top government scientist told concerned lawmakers Wednesday."A virus that doesn't replicate, doesn't m Sierra Leone to shut down for 3 days to slow Ebola 09/18/2014 04:20pm • FREETOWN, Sierra Leone (AP) -- The Western African nation of Sierra Leone is taking drastic steps to try to slow the spread of the Ebola virus. Starting at midnight tonight, there will be a three-day nationwide shutdown. The nation's six million people will be confined to their homes while volunteer QB Joe Flacco returns to practice for Ravens 09/18/2014 03:58pm • OWINGS MILLS, Md. (AP) -- Baltimore Ravens quarterback Joe Flacco has returned to practice one day after missing workouts with an illness.Flacco said on Thursday that he had picked up a stomach virus from his son.He says, "I feel better," adding that he "didn't want to get the whole team sick."Flacc Liberia president praises US for Ebola help pledge 09/18/2014 05:58am • JONATHAN PAYE-LAYLEH Associated Press MONROVIA, Liberia (AP) -- People critically ill with Ebola languishing in an ambulance for hours as paramedics seek a place for them. Treatment centers filling up as soon as they are opened. The situation is so dire in Liberia that its president welcomed a U.S. Drugstores, retailers dive deeper into vaccines 09/17/2014 06:34pm • TOM MURPHY AP Business Writer Walgreen provided enough flu shots last season to protect a population roughly twice the size of Los Angeles.CVS doled out more than 5 million, or double its total from a few years ago. And Wal-Mart, the world's largest retailer, offers flu shots at more than 4,200 of i Tracing the rise of Ebola in West Africa 09/17/2014 05:50pm • Associated Press JOHANNESBURG (AP) -- Since the Ebola outbreak first emerged in West Africa, The Associated Press has been reporting on it. A timeline compiled from AP dispatches since March shows the dreaded disease being identified in a remote part of Guinea and then spreading to another country CDC confirms respiratory illness in Va. 09/17/2014 05:29pm • RICHMOND, Va. (AP) -- Virginia is the latest state to detect a respiratory illness caused by an uncommon virus similar to the germ that causes the common cold.The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has confirmed that Virginia is among 16 states where the infection enterovirus 68 has been con CDC picks D.C. for new campaign to step up HIV treatment 09/17/2014 02:53pm • Using Southeast D.C.'s United Medical Center as a backdrop, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention launched a social marketing campaign targeted at increasing HIV treatment compliance on Wednesday. With the slogan "Get in care, Stay in care, Live well," the campaign seeks to persuade patient Severe respiratory illness confirmed in 12 states 09/17/2014 02:48pm • MIKE STOBBE AP Medical Writer NEW YORK (AP) -- Health officials say 12 states now have respiratory illnesses caused by an uncommon virus -- enterovirus 68.Centers for Disease Control and Prevention officials say Alabama, Colorado, Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Kansas, Kentucky, Louisiana, Missouri, New Y