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Inhofe, Fallin point fingers as Ebola scare turns political
by Chris Casteel
October 16, 2014
Republican Gov. Mary Fallin and U.S. Sen. Jim Inhofe, R-Tulsa, criticized the White House on Thursday as the national scare over Ebola began to take a political turn.

This Fox Host Thinks People Should Distrust Obama On Ebola Because Of Benghazi
ERIC HANANOKI
October 6, 2014 11:49 AM EDT
Fox News host Mike Huckabee is claiming the American public should distrust statements made by President Obama and the federal government about the spread of Ebola because they have purportedly lied about the September 11, 2012, attacks in Benghazi, Libya.

Larry Klayman is suing the federal government because of Ebola
By Abby Ohlheiser
October 14
Klayman is a well-known legal activist who believes that Obama was not born in the United States. He's filed "hundreds" of lawsuits against everything from the Obama administration to Judicial Watch, an organization he founded ... The Obama administration's current screening strategy is actually "a reckless plan to open the door not just to Defendant Obama’s infected fellow Africans, but also American Muslim ISIS suicide terrorists who would intentionally infect themselves with the deadly disease and thus spread it widely in the United States," the complaint reads. (Klayman believes Obama is a secret Muslim, which he points out elsewhere in the complaint).

Texas College Rejects Nigerian Applicants, Citing Ebola
By Eyder Peralta
2:36 pm Wed October 15, 2014
A small, two-year college in Texas sent at least two Nigerian students rejection letters saying they were not "accepting international students from countries with confirmed Ebola cases."

DeKalb school leaders barring new students from Ebola-affected areas
By Rose French
3:06 p.m. Thursday, Oct. 16, 2014
The DeKalb County school district announced Thursday no new students from Ebola-affected West African countries can attend classes on school campuses.

As Fear of Ebola Spreads, Ohio and Texas Close Some Schools
By MANNY FERNANDEZ
OCT. 16, 2014
Officials at a school district in Texas shut schools on Thursday after they learned that two students traveled on the Cleveland-to-Dallas flight with Amber Joy Vinson, a nurse infected with Ebola. And in Ohio, schools were shut down after officials learned that a school employee may have later flown on the same plane.

Nurses’ Union: Ebola Patient Left In Open Area Of ER For Hours
October 15, 2014 10:45 AM
A Liberian Ebola patient was left in an open area of a Dallas emergency room for hours, and nurses treating him worked without proper protective gear and faced constantly changing protocols, according to a statement released by the nation’s largest nurses’ union.

Dallas Hospital Staff Had No Ebola Training, Official Says
By MEGHAN KENEALLY
Oct 16, 2014, 1:43 PM ET
Dr. Daniel Varga said that, even though guidelines from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention were sent to the emergency department at Texas Health Presbyterian Hospital in late July, there was no follow-up training ordered for the staff.

'We never talked about Ebola': Dallas nurse says hospital lacked training, protective gear for virus
BY Meg Wagner
NEW YORK DAILY NEWS
Thursday, October 16, 2014, 9:08 AM
A Texas Health Presbyterian Hospital nurse who treated her Ebola-infected colleague claimed she was given protective garb that left her neck exposed. The Dallas hospital — where one patient died and two nurses contracted the virus — 'never talked about Ebola' or trained staffed on what to do in an emergency, she said. Meanwhile, Texas Health Presbyterian defended its actions Thursday, saying it followed the CDC's guidelines.

Experts: ISIS Could Use Ebola In Bio-Terror Attack Against US
October 9, 2014 2:15 PM
Capt. Al Shimkus, a retired professor of National Security Affairs at the U.S. Naval War College, told Forbes that ISIS/ISIL fanatics may infect themselves with the Ebola virus to use it as a suicide bio-weapon against the West.

Former governor comments on Ebola and marijuana
By Lysee Mitri
Updated: October 15, 2014, 6:45 am
Gary Johnson first made comments about marijuana and Ebola on the FOX Business Network on Monday. “We actually believe we have efficacy with regard to treating Ebola,” Johnson said before the anchor stopped him ... “You want to make it easier for people to use cannabis and apply it to Ebola… not as a cure,” Stuart Varney said, hosting the program. “No, potentially as an actual cure,” Johnson responded.

Sanitizer Sales Spike
By RHEANA MURRAY
Oct 16, 2014, 2:03 PM ET
Sales of hand sanitizer are up 9.4% in the last four weeks ending on Oct. 5, compared to the same time last year, according to IRI, a Chicago-based market research firm.

Dallas Considers Disaster Declaration Due to Ebola
Officials in Dallas County are considering asking Gov. Rick Perry to issue a disaster declaration in response to Ebola.

WHO paints grim Ebola picture, says 10,000 new cases per week possible
By Victor Beattle
October 15th, 2014
The World Health Organization has warned that as many as 10,000 new cases a week of Ebola could develop in the three hardest-hit West African countries by early December.

Ebola epidemic in West Africa could rise to rival HIV in scope
By John Zarocostas
October 15, 2014
“HIV is hard to get relative to Ebola,” said David Evans, a World Bank senior economist and the author of a recent World Bank study on Ebola’s likely impact. “I actually expect if we don’t get this under control quite quickly, we could see something even worse than what we saw with HIV in the early part of the century.”

U.N.'s $1 billion Ebola fund gets just $100,000 so far
By Michelle Nichols and Lesley Wroughton
Thu Oct 16, 2014 7:34pm GMT
A United Nations trust fund, seeking $1 billion to fight Ebola in West Africa, has received a deposit of just $100,000 nearly a month after it was set up to allow for rapid, flexible funding of the most urgent needs on the ground.

“This isn’t a natural disaster, this is the terrorism of poverty”
By Joel Achenbach
October 6
The best way for the United States to free itself of the terror of this virus is to ensure that it is wiped out at the source, where the epidemic is currently out of control. That will happen only through a coordinated effort to provide the kind of basic, front-line health care that we take for granted in the developed world but which is tragically scarce in impoverished countries.

Yale Student Being Treated for ‘Ebola-Like Symptoms’
By PATRICK McGEEHAN
OCT. 16, 2014
Officials at Yale University said on Thursday that a graduate student who had recently returned from Liberia was being treated in isolation as a “suspected case” of Ebola, though they said they had no medical evidence that the patient had contracted the deadly disease.

LSU employee under quarantine after returning from Ebola training mission in Liberia
Emily Lane, NOLA.com
updated October 16, 2014 at 2:54 PM
An LSU employee who recently returned to Baton Rouge from Liberia where he trained police there to avoid contracting Ebola will remain under a precautionary 21-day quarantine before returning to campus, according to the university ... He did not, university spokesman Ernie Ballard said, deal with patients or in any medical setting.

State attorney general wants to stop ashes of Ebola victim's belongings from being brought to Louisiana
Diana Samuels, NOLA.com
updated October 13, 2014 at 4:59 AM
Six truckloads of the "potential Ebola-contaminated material" were burned at a facility in Port Arthur, Texas, on Friday, Caldwell said in a statement. The ashes are planned to be brought to a hazardous-waste landfill in Louisiana, but Caldwell is trying to stop that from happening.

Judge blocks disposal of Ebola victim’s incinerated belongings in Louisiana
By Abby Ohlheiser
October 13
The incinerated belongings of Ebola victim Thomas Eric Duncan were bound for a Louisiana hazardous waste landfill — until the state's attorney general, Buddy Caldwell, raised concerns that the ashes could pose a danger to Louisiana's population. Caldwell's office said in an e-mailed statement Monday afternoon that a Louisiana judge granted its request for a temporary restraining order blocking the transportation of Duncan's belongings into the state from Texas

911 dispatchers forbidden from saying ‘Ebola’ on the radio
By Shawn Cohen, Jamie Schram and Laura Italiano
October 16, 2014 | 1:25am
An FDNY memo instructs all personnel to use more vague terms when discussing the deadly disease, which is threatening to become a global pandemic. “At no point shall a dispatcher transmit over the radio any message containing the word ‘Ebola’ or related terminology,” according to the advisory, which was obtained by The Post.

Ebola-related social media prank causes parent panic in Alaska, newspaper reports
Jessica Williams, NOLA.com
updated October 16, 2014 at 10:43 AM
Police say someone circulated a fake warning on social media, indicating that the deadly disease had broken out at two area high schools. The message appeared to be from the Anchorage public school system.