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The Department of Homeland Security announced Tuesday that all people flying from three Ebola affected nations must fly through one of five American airports. One of the airports being Atlanta's Hartsfield-Jackson International Airport. DHS says this move is to help prevent the spread of the deadly virus in the United States. Passengers flying from Liberia, Sierra Leone or Guinea will undergo additional health screenings and protective measures that were put into place at the five airports last week. The five airports are JFK, Newark, Dulles, Atlanta and O'Hare. This new mandate will go into effect Wednesday.

A Conversation With Dr. Ben Carson About Ebola Hugh Hewitt A Conversation With Dr. Ben Carson About Ebola Dr. Ben Carson joined me on Friday’s show to discuss the Ebola cases. HH: I am joined by Dr. Ben Carson. Dr. Carson, welcome back to the Hugh Hewitt Show. BC: Thank you. Always good to be with you. HH: Dr. you’re such a well-established and well-regarded national figure, the professor of neurosurgery, oncology, plastic surgery, the head of pediatric neurosurgery at Johns Hopkins University. You’ve won the Presidential Medal of Freedom. You did the National Prayer Breakfast. You wrote One Nation....

***Snip**** But what have politically correct North American governments done? They’ve hemmed and hawed, and blathered out excuses about why a ban would only make things worse. I am not particularly worried about the spread of Ebola in North America – a little, not a lot. But choosing political correctness over public health – even choosing PC over health workers’ health – is asinine, ridiculous and even arrogant. The worst fumbling, mealy mouthed arguments against a travel ban to the U.S. and Canada have come from Thomas Frieden, the head of the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC)....

The Liberian man who became the first Ebola fatality in the U.S. was tearfully lionized Saturday as the disease that killed him infected two new regions of West Africa. Thomas Duncan, aka Patient Zero, was remembered as a kind and generous soul who reportedly contracted the fatal virus by helping out a needy pregnant woman. She later died of Ebola. “Eric would have been out there and helped that woman,” said his nephew Josephus Weeks, referring to Duncan by his middle name, after the service inside the Rowan International Church in Salisbury, N.C. “And he would have done everything that...

Ebola transmission and source Of all animals, bats and rats are generally considered to carry around numerous pathogens that can infect humans. Rats tend to live close to humans and are still associated with the bubonic plague that swept through Europe in the 14th century, killing almost 25 million people. But why do bats have such a bad reputation? Well this prejudice against bats is actually not very surprising. Bats can carry a number of pathogens (rabies, Hendra, Marburg, Nipah and indeed also Ebola). These are all viruses that can cause serious disease in humans. Particularly the Ebola virus can...

A ban on travel from West Africa might seem like a simple and smart response to the frightening Ebola outbreak there... But health experts are nearly unanimous in saying it's a bad idea that could backfire.

... El Salvador launched a security protocol at airports, borders and ports and prepares to meet possible hospital acquired cases and 350 costumes for use biosecurity health personnel. The health authorities have reiterated that all persons entering the country and originating from that area of Africa where there have been cases of Ebola, assigned the security protocol will be quarantined. Representatives of Central America, Dominican Republic and the Pan American Health Organization began Friday a day of two days of meetings to discuss strategic combat diseases such as Chikungunya and Ebola.

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Remember what happened the last time a virus was granted it's own human rights status? Positive and proud? El Viro Unido, no sera vencido. Grr.

President Obama is taking the Ebola threat seriously. For the second day in a row, he cancelled planned trips to meet with advisers. He authorized the call-up of National Guard members and reservists for possible duty in West Africa. However, he has so far rejected a call for a ban on incoming flights from countries with Ebola outbreaks, as called for by some Republicans. He said a ban could result in people trying to hide where they were coming from and thus becoming less likely to be screened.

Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) of the U.S. is trying to reconsider its approach to Ebola patients after several reports suggest that the fatal virus could be airborne. Many people in the population are extremely afraid with the fact that they can acquire the deadly disease, while more than 8,000 people have been already affected since its outbreak in Guinea in late 2013. The people are even more afraid today after the news reveal that two Dallas nurse have been infected with the virus after taking care of Thomas Duncan, the first confirmed case of the deadly infection...

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A Dallas lab worker who handled a specimen from Thomas Eric Duncan is on a cruise ship in the Caribbean. Cruise ship liner Carnival was notified late Wednesday by the Center for Disease Control and Prevention that the woman was a lab supervisor at the Texas Health Presbyterian Hospital where Duncan died from Ebola earlier this month. Although the unidentified woman is being monitored and has not shown symptoms, she has been quarantined on the ship.  US officials wanted her to deboard in Belize and fly her home but Belizian officials refused to allow her to travel through Phillip Goldson International Airport. Mexico...

U.S. standards for protecting healthcare workers from Ebola are weaker than those widely used in West Africa, according to the leader of a group treating victims of the virus in Liberia. “We’re not comfortable with [Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC)] procedures,” Ken Isaacs, the vice president of Samaritan's Purse, told The Hill. When Samaritan's Purse health workers treat patients in Liberia, they wear two pairs of gloves and spray themselves with disinfectant twice before leaving the isolation ward. They have a three-foot “no touch” policy and hold safety meetings every day. In U.S. hospitals — such as Texas...

Obama's man on Ebola is former Biden staff chief 1 hour ago • BY JIM KUHNHENN(0) Comments WASHINGTON (AP) — He's tackled the financial crisis, served two vice presidents and been portrayed by Kevin Spacey in an HBO film, but Ron Klain's newest job as the U.S. point person on Ebola may be his toughest challenge to date. A longtime Democratic operative, Klain was tasked Friday by President Barack Obama with running the government's response to the Ebola crisis. Klain has been a trusted adviser at the Obama White House, and served as Vice President Joe Biden's chief of staff...

As the U.S. military rushes to combat Ebola in West Africa, soldiers are receiving on-the-fly instructions on how to protect themselves against the deadly virus. American military operations to fight Ebola in Africa are unfolding quickly—forcing the military to come up with some procedures and protocols on the fly. Soldiers preparing for deployment to West Africa are given just four hours of Ebola-related training before leaving to combat the epidemic. And the first 500 soldiers to arrive have been holing up in Liberian hotels and government facilities while the military builds longer-term infrastructure on the ground. For soldiers at Fort...

WASHINGTON –The president is dispatching a top aide to Dallas to coordinate Ebola response. Adrian Saenz, a seasoned political operative from Texas who has worked in Congress and, for the last 13 months, at the White House will serve as the administration’s Dallas-based liaison. “Saenz will be on the ground in Dallas and in close coordination with senior White House officials involved in the Ebola response, including Ron Klain, the Ebola Response Coordinator,” a White House aide said. The deployment helps to “fulfill the president’s pledge that state and local authorities are able to call upon any and all necessary...

Americans are inundated with media coverage and politicians warning them of dire threats: Ebola, the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS), the war on Christmas. The truth, though, is that the most-hyped threats are often not actually that threatening to Americans, while larger dangers go mostly ignored. That should tell you something about how our political system and media can distort threats, leading Americans to overreact to minor dangers while ignoring the big, challenging, divisive problems - like climate change - that we should actually be worried about. Obsessing about possible threats is something of a beloved national pastime...

The Film Array can screen for Ebola with 90percent accuracy It is being using by US military doctors in West Africa Texas Health Presbyterian Hospital had one of the $39,000 devices but could not use it to diagnose diseases The military has given the Utah-based developer of the machine a $240million grant to perfect deadly virus detection The Dallas hospital that sent home Thomas Eric Duncan the first time he showed up at the emergency room has a machine that could have detected Ebola in less than an hour - but doctors were barred from using it because of federal...