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Stocks flat...Consumer sentiment improves...Experimental Ebola drug raises hopes 08/29/2014 03:40pm • NEW YORK (AP) -- Stocks are mixed in light Wall Street trading ahead of the Labor Day weekend, with the Dow slightly lower and the S&P 500 and the Nasdaq slightly higher. Investors are looking at reports that gave a mixed picture of the U.S. economy along with some better-than-expected company earni Morning Notes 08/29/2014 08:05am • NIH To Conduct Human Testing Of Ebola Vaccine – NIH announced Thursday that it will begin human testing of a potential Ebola virus vaccine next week at its Bethesda campus. The agency’s National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID) is stepping up the pace of human t UN: Ebola disease caseload could reach 20,000 08/29/2014 07:29am • JOHN HEILPRIN Associated Press GENEVA (AP) -- The Ebola outbreak in West Africa is accelerating and could grow six times larger to infect as many as 20,000 people, the World Health Organization said Thursday. The U.N. health agency unveiled a new road map for containing the virus, and scientists are West Nile Virus detected in Maryland resident 08/28/2014 05:50pm • BALTIMORE (AP) -- Health officials say Maryland has its first confirmed case of West Nile Virus infection this year.The Department of Health and Mental Hygiene said Thursday that an adult who lives in the National Capital Region is infected.The department says the virus has also been detected in a h CDC worker flown home to US over Ebola concerns 08/28/2014 12:50pm • JEFF MARTIN Associated Press ATLANTA (AP) -- A CDC staff member who worked in close proximity to someone infected by the deadly Ebola virus in West Africa has been flown by charter jet back home to Atlanta to monitor potential symptoms, officials said Thursday.The staffer had "low-risk" contact with UN scientist with Ebola in Germany for treatment 08/28/2014 12:20pm • DAVID RISING Associated Press BERLIN (AP) -- A scientist who was infected with Ebola while working for the World Health Organization in Sierra Leone began receiving treatment Wednesday in a Hamburg hospital after being flown overnight to Germany.The man, whose name and condition are being withheld f Despite Ebola fears, games ordered to go ahead 08/28/2014 11:51am • DIVINE NTARYIKE Associated Press DOUALA, Cameroon (AP) -- Despite a deadly Ebola outbreak in a fifth country, the Confederation of African Football said Thursday that qualifiers for the continent's top tournament will go ahead as planned next month, sweeping aside protests from a number of fearful t US official warns Ebola outbreak will get worse 08/28/2014 04:16am • CLARENCE ROY-MACAULAY Associated Press FREETOWN, Sierra Leone (AP) -- A third top doctor has died from Ebola in Sierra Leone, a government official said Wednesday, as a leading American health official warned that the outbreak sweeping West Africa would get worse.The disease has already killed more Ebola has 'upper hand' says US health official 08/27/2014 07:22am • JONATHAN PAYE-LAYLEH Associated Press MONROVIA, Liberia (AP) -- Ebola still has the "upper hand" in the outbreak that has killed more than 1,400 people in West Africa, but experts have the means to stop it, a top American health official said during a visit to the hardest-hit countries.Dr. Tom Fried Adults skipping many necessary vaccines 08/26/2014 06:13pm • WASHINGTON -- Adults are generally good about making sure their children get the shots they need for school. But grown-ups need certain vaccinations as well, and many are skipping them. The trend has the American Lung Association so concerned that it declared Aug. 24-30 Not Just For Kids Week, SHOW BITS: A last hurrah for 'Breaking Bad' 08/26/2014 02:30pm • The Associated Press LOS ANGELES (AP) -- Show Bits brings you the 66th annual Primetime Emmy Awards in Los Angeles through the eyes of Associated Press journalists. Follow them on Twitter where available with the handles listed after each item.___'BREAKING BAD' CELEBRATIONAaron Paul toted his Emmy Ebola: Ivory Coast-Sierra Leone game now in doubt 08/26/2014 01:23pm • ABIDJAN, Ivory Coast (AP) -- Another African Cup of Nations qualifier is in doubt because of the deadly Ebola virus after Ivory Coast's football federation said Tuesday that it had been instructed by its government to cancel or move next month's home game against Sierra Leone.Ivory Coast has restric US health official: Ebola has 'upper hand' 08/26/2014 08:59am • MONROVIA, Liberia (AP) -- The head of the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention says Ebola is winning right now in West Africa but the tide can be turned.Dr. Tom Frieden is on a visit this week to Liberia, Sierra Leone and Guinea, the three hardest hit countries.Frieden says that while the 'Breaking Bad' and 'Modern Family' win Emmy Awards 08/26/2014 06:50am • LYNN ELBER AP Television Writer LOS ANGELES (AP) -- "Modern Family" and "Breaking Bad" triumphed at Monday's Emmy Awards, proving that established broadcast and cable fare retains the power to fend off challenges from upstart online series such as "Orange Is the New Black."The ceremony's emotion Liberia: Doctor given experimental Ebola drug dies 08/26/2014 04:50am • JONATHAN PAYE-LAYLEH Associated Press MONROVIA, Liberia (AP) -- A Liberian doctor who received one of the last known doses of an experimental Ebola drug has died, officials said Monday. Separately, Canada said it has yet to send out an untested vaccine that the government is donating.Ebola has left