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Clusters of childrens' respiratory virus in Va. 09/10/2014 03:29pm • WASHINGTON -- Kids in the D.C. region and elsewhere in the U.S. are coming down with serious respiratory illnesses. Viruses, including one uncommon strain that health workers are watching closely, are to blame. "They're basically very bad cold viruses, and they affect the lungs of children," sa Haiti gets help for mosquito-borne virus outbreak 09/10/2014 02:56pm • PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (AP) -- Haiti has received a large shipment of treatment packets to help it deal with an outbreak of the mosquito-borne virus known as chikungunya amid a rainy season expected to result in a surge of new cases in the country, officials said Wednesday.The treatment kits provided Nationals pulling away in NL East, top Braves 6-4 09/09/2014 11:50pm • JOSEPH WHITE AP Sports Writer WASHINGTON (AP) -- Mathematicians will say the Washington Nationals can't clinch the NL East until next week. Practicality says they essentially wrapped it up Tuesday night when they sent nine hitters to the plate against Ervin Santana in the first inning of another win Ebola is surging in places it had been beaten back 09/09/2014 08:30pm • SARAH DiLORENZO Associated Press CONAKRY, Guinea (AP) -- Doctors Without Borders shuttered one of its Ebola treatment centers in Guinea in May. They thought the deadly virus was being contained there.The Macenta region, right on the Liberian border, had been one of the first places where the outbrea Monkey study: Ebola vaccine works, needs booster 09/09/2014 04:46pm • LAURAN NEERGAARD AP Medical Writer WASHINGTON (AP) -- New monkey studies show that one shot of an experimental Ebola vaccine can trigger fast protection, but the effect waned unless the animals got a booster shot made a different way.Some healthy people are rolling up their sleeves at the National I 4th US aid worker with Ebola arrives in Atlanta 09/09/2014 04:28pm • KATE BRUMBACK Associated Press ATLANTA (AP) -- The fourth American aid worker sickened with the Ebola virus arrived Tuesday morning to a mostly calm scene at Emory University Hospital, where two others have been successfully treated.An ambulance carrying the patient arrived about 10:25 a.m. (1425 GM Atlanta hospital now treating American aid worker with Ebola 09/09/2014 03:39pm • ATLANTA (AP) -- A doctor at an Atlanta hospital says it's a good sign that an aid worker with the Ebola virus was able to walk from an ambulance into the hospital today, after arriving in the Atlanta area aboard a specially-equipped plane.Hospital officials haven't released the patient's identity. B 4th US aid worker with Ebola arrives at hospital 09/09/2014 11:50am • ATLANTA (AP) -- An ambulance transporting the fourth American aid worker sickened with the Ebola virus has arrived at Emory University Hospital for treatment.The patient arrived about 10:20 a.m. Tuesday, walking from the ambulance to the hospital. A medical plane first transported the patient to the 4th American with Ebola to be flown to US for care 09/08/2014 11:44pm • JOSH FUNK Associated Press ATLANTA (AP) -- A fourth American who contracted Ebola in West Africa was expected to arrive in the U.S. for care Tuesday and will be treated at an Atlanta hospital where two other aid workers successfully recovered from the disease, the hospital said Monday.Air Force spok US, UK to send military help for Ebola, as WHO warns cases about to surge in Liberia 09/08/2014 10:30pm • MONROVIA, Liberia (AP) -- The United States and Britain will send medical equipment and military personnel to help contain West Africa's Ebola outbreak, as the World Health Organization warns that thousands of new infections are expected in the coming weeks.The outbreak has spread from Guinea to Sie Atlanta hospital: 4th American who contracted Ebola in Africa to be brought to US for care 09/08/2014 10:00pm • ATLANTA (AP) -- A fourth American who contracted Ebola in West Africa is expected to arrive in the U.S. for care Tuesday and will be treated at the Atlanta hospital where two other aid workers successfully recovered from the disease.Emory University Hospital is citing confidentiality in not releasin Obama warns Ebola outbreak could worsen 09/08/2014 03:28pm • WASHINGTON (AP) -- President Barack Obama says helping contain the current Ebola outbreak in West Africa is a U.S. national security priority but it's going to be a long and difficult task.He says the American military will be helping set up isolation units and equipment there and providing security Morning Notes 09/08/2014 08:20am • More Dangerous Toxins Found Misplaced In NIH Labs – After finding misplaced vials of the smallpox virus in July, NIH officials have found a batch of other deadly toxins and pathogens improperly stored throughout the Bethesda campus. The latest search found five misplaced “select ag Wife, son of Ebola patient visit Nebraska center 09/07/2014 07:04pm • OMAHA, Neb. (AP) -- A doctor who became infected with Ebola while working in Liberia visited Saturday with two of his family members at the Nebraska hospital where he's receiving treatment, a spokesman said.Debbie Sacra and the couple's oldest son interacted with Dr. Rick Sacra for about 25 minutes Could the blood of Ebola survivors help patients? 09/07/2014 01:10pm • MARIA CHENG AP Medical Writer LONDON (AP) -- As West Africa struggles to contain the biggest ever outbreak of Ebola, some experts say an unusual but simple treatment might help: the blood of survivors.The evidence is mixed for using infection-fighting antibodies from survivors' blood for Ebola, but