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Flu season starting soon 09/15/2014 01:21am • WASHINGTON -- A number of parents are concerned about the serious respiratory illnesses, including the enterovirus D68 found in the Midwest. But doctors are saying parents should be just as nervous about the flu. "The flu is a much more common threat this time of year," says pediatrician Dr. Jo Cuba sending dozens of doctors to fight Ebola 09/15/2014 12:14am • MARIA CHENG AP Medical Writer LONDON (AP) -- Cuba's health ministry said Friday it is sending more than 160 health workers to help stop the raging Ebola outbreak in Sierra Leone, providing a much-needed injection of medical expertise in a country where health workers are in short supply.World Health Sierra Leone doctor dies of Ebola after failed bid to evacuate her 09/14/2014 10:50am • FREETOWN, Sierra Leone (AP) -- A doctor in Sierra Leone has died, hours after a failed effort to transfer her abroad for medical treatment.A government official in the West African country tells The Associated Press that Dr. Olivet Buck died late yesterday. She is the fourth doctor from Sierra Leone Sierra Leone requests funds for Ebola evacuation 09/14/2014 08:40am • CLARENCE ROY-MACAULAY Associated Press FREETOWN, Sierra Leone (AP) -- The World Health Organization said Saturday it could not meet a request from Sierra Leone to evacuate a doctor who contracted the deadly Ebola disease.Dr. Olivet Buck is the fourth doctor from Sierra Leone to come down with Ebola, NY man who strangled 8 prostitutes dies in prison 09/12/2014 08:28pm • MICHAEL VIRTANEN Associated Press ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) -- A former school hall monitor who admitted strangling eight prostitutes and stashing their corpses in his home in the 1990s has died at a prison in western New York.Prison officials said Kendall Francois, who was 43, died Thursday evening from ap Packers lineman Bulaga questionable for Sunday 09/12/2014 06:30pm • TODD McMAHON Associated Press GREEN BAY, Wis. (AP) -- The Green Bay Packers will have one lineup change for their first game at Lambeau Field this season.The possibility for another one is in play.The Packers won't know until Saturday whether injured right tackle Bryan Bulaga will be available for t Local school systems hold vaccination clinics 09/12/2014 01:07pm • WASHINGTON - Whooping cough is one concern for parents right now, and a different respiratory illness caused by a rare viral strain is another. Health workers in Prince George's County will try to address both this weekend. Anne Arundel County will offer clinics starting Monday. "We are having fou Image of Asia: Vaccinating 13 million Filipinos 09/12/2014 09:50am • The Associated Press In this photo by Bullit Marquez, a health worker vaccinates a baby in the Philippines during a monthlong campaign to immunize 13 million children nationwide against measles, rubella and polio. The campaign has reached an estimated 30 percent of its target in the first two weeks 4th Sierra Leonean doctor infected with Ebola 09/12/2014 04:56am • CLARENCE ROY-MACAULAY Associated Press FREETOWN, Sierra Leone (AP) -- Another doctor from Sierra Leone who has tested positive for Ebola will be evacuated for medical treatment, an official said Thursday, making her the first citizen of a hard-hit country to be treated abroad.Dr. Olivette Buck is th American gets blood from fellow Ebola survivor 09/12/2014 01:56am • JOSH FUNK Associated Press OMAHA, Neb. (AP) -- An American aid worker infected with Ebola has been given blood from a fellow doctor who battled the disease, and Nebraska doctors say the man has responded well to aggressive treatment in the past week.Dr. Rick Sacra received two blood transfusions fro Gates Foundation to spend $50M on Ebola response 09/11/2014 05:20pm • DONNA GORDON BLANKINSHIP Associated Press SEATTLE (AP) -- The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation announced Wednesday that it will spend $50 million to support emergency response to the Ebola outbreak in West Africa, marking the group's largest donation to a humanitarian effort."It became clear to us ov 4th US aid worker with Ebola arrives in Atlanta 09/11/2014 02:36pm • KATE BRUMBACK Associated Press ATLANTA (AP) -- The fourth U.S. aid worker sickened with Ebola arrived in Atlanta on Tuesday, mirroring the carefully choreographed routine of the two Americans already successfully treated and released from Emory University Hospital's special isolation unit.The latest Nebraska doctors: Ebola patient improving 09/11/2014 05:50am • OMAHA, Neb. (AP) -- A Nebraska doctor treating an American who became infected with Ebola while working in Liberia says the man's condition is improving.The patient, Dr. Rick Sacra of Massachusetts, arrived at the Nebraska Medical Center on Friday for treatment in the hospital's specialized 10-bed i Serious respiratory illness hits hundreds of kids 09/10/2014 08:50pm • LINDSEY TANNER AP Medical Writer CHICAGO (AP) -- Hundreds of children in more than 10 states have been sickened by a severe respiratory illness that public health officials say may be caused by an uncommon virus similar to the germ that causes the common cold.Nearly 500 children have been treated at Editorial Roundup: Excerpts from recent editorials 09/10/2014 05:00pm • The Associated Press Excerpts from recent editorials in newspapers in the United States and abroad:___Sept. 8The Commercial Appeal, Memphis, Tennessee, on World Health Organization hurting:Were it not for horribly misguided Islamic religious fanatics in northern Nigeria and tribal Pakistan, the Wor