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Unrest grows in Liberian slum sealed to halt Ebola spread; tension and fear high in capital 08/20/2014 12:29pm • MONROVIA, Liberia (AP) -- Residents of a seaside slum in Liberia's capital are protesting the government's decision to seal off the area in an effort to stop the spread of Ebola.At least 50,000 people live on the half-mile-long West Point district, making it one of the poorest and most densely popul Liberia president declares Ebola curfew 08/20/2014 04:46am • JONATHAN PAYE-LAYLEH Associated Press MONROVIA, Liberia (AP) -- Liberia's president declared a curfew and ordered security forces to quarantine a slum home to at least 50,000 people late Tuesday as the West African country battled to stop the spread of Ebola in the capital.The measures came as autho West Nile detected in mosquitoes in Norfolk 08/19/2014 08:30am • NORFOLK, Va. (AP) -- Norfolk health officials say samples from mosquito pools in two neighborhoods have tested positive for West Nile virus.The Department of Public Health tells media outlets that one sample was collected in the city's Ingleside neighborhood on July 24. The other was collected from Growing unrest sets back Liberia's Ebola fight 08/19/2014 03:32am • JONATHAN PAYE-LAYLEH Associated Press MONROVIA, Liberia (AP) -- Authorities in Liberia urgently searched on Monday for 17 people who fled an Ebola medical center over the weekend when it was attacked by looters who stole blood-stained sheets and mattresses and took them into an enormous slum.Health Ebola puts focus on drugs made in tobacco plants 08/19/2014 03:32am • MALCOLM RITTER AP Science Writer NEW YORK (AP) -- It's an eye-catching angle in the story of an experimental treatment for Ebola: The drug comes from tobacco plants that were turned into living pharmaceutical factories.Using plants this way -- sometimes called "pharming" -- can produce complex and v Authorities searching for 17 who fled Ebola quarantine center in Liberia; 20 re-hospitalized 08/18/2014 01:00pm • MONROVIA, Liberia (AP) -- Liberian authorities are searching for 17 patients who fled an Ebola quarantine center in the capital after it was attacked this weekend.A total of 37 patients fled, but 20 have been brought back to hospitals and are again under observation. Health officials say none have b Another Ebola problem: Finding its natural source 08/18/2014 11:46am • MIKE STOBBE AP Medical Writers A scary problem lurks beyond the frenzied efforts to keep people from spreading Ebola: No one knows exactly where the virus comes from or how to stop it from seeding new outbreaks.Ebola has caused two dozen outbreaks in Africa since it first emerged in 1976. It is comi Report: CDC scientist kept quiet about flu blunder 08/18/2014 09:12am • MIKE STOBBE AP Medical Writer NEW YORK (AP) -- A government scientist kept silent about a potentially dangerous lab blunder and revealed it only after workers in another lab noticed something fishy, according to an internal investigation.The accident happened in January at the headquarters of the Ce Virus prompts cat quarantine at Va. shelter 08/18/2014 08:18am • LYNDHURST, Va. (AP) -- The Shenandoah Valley Animal Services Center has temporarily stopped accepting cats following the death of a kitten from a virus.The shelter imposed the 14-day quarantine on Aug. 8. No cats will be accepted while the quarantine is in effect.Shelter director Lindsey Huffman tel Griffin, Manziel highlight week two preseason story lines 08/17/2014 04:03pm • WASHINGTON -- Monday night's Redskins Browns preseason game at FedEx Field does not lack story lines. If you want, you can watch the Johnny Football/RG3 show. Mr. Football -- Johnny Manziel -- will split snaps with Cleveland starter Brian Hoyer and see how he fares in his second preseason actio Scientists racing to test Ebola vaccines in humans 08/17/2014 02:00pm • MATTHEW PERRONE Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) -- Scientists are racing to begin the first human safety tests of two experimental Ebola vaccines, but it won't be easy to prove that the shots and other potential treatments in the pipeline really work.There are no proven drugs or vaccines for Ebola, Liberia expands Ebola treatment in capital 08/17/2014 06:24am • KRISTA LARSON Associated Press MONROVIA, Liberia (AP) -- Liberian authorities expanded Ebola treatment centers in the capital Saturday to cope with increasing numbers of patients, while two more airlines announced they were halting flights to the capitals of Liberia and Sierra Leone amid the deepeni Ebola survivor shunned by boyfriend, even school 08/16/2014 12:12pm • BOUBACAR DIALLO Associated Press CONAKRY, Guinea (AP) -- The medical school professors no longer want Kadiatou Fanta in the classroom. Her boyfriend has broken up with her. Each day the 26-year-old eats alone and sleeps alone. Even her own family members are afraid to touch her months after she surv Youth Olympics open in China amid Ebola worries 08/16/2014 10:03am • NANJING, China (AP) -- Fears of the Ebola virus cast a cloud over Saturday's opening of the second Youth Olympics in the eastern Chinese city of Nanjing, after three athletes were barred from competition because of the risk of infection.The entire delegations from three nations affected by the virus Aid group: W. Africa Ebola outbreak like 'wartime' 08/16/2014 03:42am • JONATHAN PAYE-LAYLEH Associated Press MONROVIA, Liberia (AP) -- The Ebola outbreak that has killed more than 1,100 people in West Africa could last another six months, the Doctors Without Borders charity group said Friday. One aid worker acknowledged that the true death toll is still unknown.New fig